She's So Money
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4.7 • 12 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Question: What do you get when you take . . .
1 overachieving girl+ 1 insanely cute guy + 1 massive fine + 1 scheme involving a little dishonesty and a whole lot of cash?
I've always been the good girl—working seriously long hours at my family's restaurant and getting straight As. And Camden King was always just that hot, popular guy I'd pass in the halls, whose ego was probably much bigger than his brain. I didn't think there'd ever be a reason for us to actually, like, interact.
Then again, I never thought I'd mess up so badly that my family might lose our entire restaurant if I didn't come up with a ton of money, and fast. So that's where Camden comes in—he and his evil/genius plan to do kids' homework for cash.
I know cheating's wrong, but it's better than being dead, right? Which is what I'd be if my parents knew about what happened. I never expected things to spin so far out of control. Or that I'd be such a sucker for Camden's lopsided grin.Or that falling apart could be the best thing that ever happened to me.
Answer: The time of my life.
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Maya Naravadee, a high-achieving senior works nights at her parents' Thai restaurant and dreams of escaping Michigan with a scholarship to Stanford. But when she is left in charge of the restaurant for a weekend, she ends up with a $10,000 fine from the health department. Rather than 'fess up, she cooks up a scheme with the most popular guy at school, lazy, arrogant and rich Camden King, to do his homework for him and his friends, and then recruits her own friends to join her and skims their pay. In her first novel, Cheva, a writer for the TV show Family Guy, proves herself adept at relaying the dynamics of Maya's family: the scenes set at the restaurant show Maya under stress but nevertheless silently proud of her hardworking, traditional parents. Maya also gets off some pretty smart lines ("All I could think about was how happy it would make me to add convenience to your life by doing your homework for you," she deadpans to Camden when setting up their arrangement). The plot takes a brief respite from implausibility so that Maya can register the inevitable lesson about honesty, then spins right back into fantasyland with a blatantly jerry-rigged happy ending. But if Cheva can find a topic as vital as her best writing here, her work will bear close watching. Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
She's So Money
Amazing book
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