Braless in Wonderland

Braless in Wonderland

By: Debbie Reed Fischer

224p

Dutton Juvenile

ISBN-10: 0525479546
ISBN-13: 978-0525479543

Annotation:
Allee Rosen is a teen girl who focuses on her more on education and less on her social life is thrust into a world completely new, when she is discovered by a model scout.


Summary
Allee Rosen is a high school senior with one thing on her mind, Yale University. That is until her father explains that a minor miscalculation in the college fund is about to destroy everything she has worked so hard for. While at the mall to support her sister (affectionately named “The Fluff”) own modeling aspirations, Allee is accidentally discovered by a modeling agency. Now she is given the choice, either go back to business as usual; finishing up high school and working at the local Wal-Mart, and accept one of the dreaded local colleges or spend the next six months in Miami trying to be the model she never thought she was. In an attempt to earn enough money to pay for the college of her dreams, She chooses the later.

Allee’s adventure in modeling is a fun journey filled with strange vocabulary and surreal surroundings that sound almost imaginary to the casual reader. Fans of America's Next Top Model will be enthralled, especially once she becomes the next “it” girl. As the story comes to a close Allee is then forced to choose, continue modeling and head to Japan for the next six months or go to Yale.

The story tends to drag once Allee begins her modeling career her common sense is lost once she enters the modeling world which makes for predictable resolutions. Teens will love the fantastical storyline and unforgettable situations, however, combined with one dimensional characters such as the “friend” who is really the conniving back-stabber, the mean girl with a heart of gold, makes this novel unable to completely fulfill its potential.

Still Teens will be strutting down the runway when the finish this book, looking for more on the subject.