by Holly Smale
First published 2013
Harriet Manners collects random facts like a magpie hoards shiny objects. She can tell you that cats control each ear with 32 muscles and that people laugh 15 times daily on average. What baffles her is why her classmates treat her like she has the plague. When a top modeling agent spots Harriet and offers her a chance at reinvention, she seizes it without thinking through the consequences. This decision puts her on a collision course with her best friend's dreams and her nemesis Alexa's fury. She stumbles through one fashion disaster after another while trying not to make a fool of herself around Nick, a supermodel who looks like he stepped out of a magazine. Her enthusiastic father and her devoted stalker Toby cheer her on from the sidelines. The modeling world proves just as hostile as high school. Harriet watches her old life crumble while she struggles to build a new one. She must figure out how to stay true to herself while everything she cares about falls apart.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adolescence, fashion
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, whimsical
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, found-family
356 pages · ebook · HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks