Going Geek
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Charlotte Huang. (2016). Going Geek. Random House Children's Books.

Charlotte Huang. 2016. Going Geek. Random House Children's Books.

Charlotte Huang, Going Geek. Random House Children's Books, 2016.

Charlotte Huang. Going Geek. Random House Children's Books, 2016.

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   • bioText: CHARLOTTE HUANG is the author of For the Record. She grew up in the Boston area and was a day student at a prestigious boarding school, where she didn't quite hit her stride but made great friends and got good at writing ten-page papers in one night. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
     charlottehuangbooks.com
     Follow Charlotte on Instagram & @charlottexhuang on Twitter.
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A girl returns to her exclusive east coast boarding school and finds that she's no longer one of the cool kids on campus in this second novel from the author of For the Record.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been perfect: 
   amazing boyfriend
   the coolest friends
   the most desirable dorm
But it’s far from it. To her dismay, Skylar’s not going to rule senior year because she’s stuck in Abbot House, a tiny dorm known for, well, nothing. Living with a group of strangers everyone thinks is lame is bad enough. Worse is that Skylar wasn’t exactly truthful about how she spent summer break in Los Angeles—and her little white lie is causing her once rock-solid romance to crumble fast. And when it turns out that Skylar’s best friend is the one responsible for having her booted from Lincoln? It’s an all-out war.
Stepping out of her comfort zone never felt so scary—or necessary. But everything is different now. Including, maybe, Skylar herself . . .
***
 "A love letter—brimming with heart, soul, and wit—to everyone who's ever felt left behind . . . perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins and Rainbow Rowell." —Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King

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   • source: Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything
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     "A coming-of-age story set against the socially cutthroat backdrop of a preppy East Coast boarding school . . . realistic fiction with a quickly moving plot."

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   • source: Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
   • content: "This fast-paced and funny debut had me hooked from page one. Like your new favorite song, this is a story that stays with you!"
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   • source: Leila Sales, author of This Song Will Save Your Life
   • content: "Whip-smart, romantic, and so perfectly cool. Welcome to your new obsession."
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     July 15, 2016
     An amiable yet insufferably class-obsessed LA teen copes with her family's fall from wealth.Skylar Hoffman waits tables at the same exclusive beach club she used to belong to because her parents' incomes steadily dwindle. Her filmmaker mother, Lisa Chen, produced one teen blockbuster and hasn't had another commercial success since; her father's work as a graphic designer was "never that busy to begin with." Huang spares readers the poverty porn of Skylar's family coping with their downsized fortunes in such a wealth- and image-obsessed place as LA. Instead, she makes Skylar's struggle with this new normal the story's ongoing metaphor as she lies by omission and commission about her circumstances to her New England old-money classmates at tony Winthrop Academy, a boarding school near Boston, and the subsequent repercussions. In the process, Skylar, who might be mixed-race Asian-American judging by her parents' names, also challenges the model-minority stereotypes of the financially comfortable and academically excellent Asians. However, in taking on these negative images, the author tends to not indicate characters of color except for hints in their names, like boyfriend Leo Diaz--a few noted exceptions being ambiguous physical descriptions of Skylar's guidance counselor, Ms. Randall, and dorm mate Raksmey, along with fellow students C.J., who comes from mainland China, and Yasmin, from United Arab Emirates. A smart look at class that's undercut by its deemphasis of race. (Fiction. 12-16)

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Gr 8 Up-A coming-of-age story set against the socially cutthroat backdrop of a preppy East Coast boarding school. Readers do not need to be familiar with boarding schools, or even private school life, to relate to the intense social pressure that Huang's main character, Skylar, faces. Skylar's plans for an epic senior year (perfect boyfriend, cool friends, and high-status accommodations) are turned upside down when her movie-making mother is unable to produce a sequel to her blockbuster, which defined a generation of teenagers. Not only does this failure mean that Skylar must sacrifice her pampered way of life but it also shakes the fragile identity that she has created around the movie's success. The teen tries to hide her struggle, but her friends abandon her once her deception is revealed. Skylar must make a new life for herself with the social castoffs and misfits that she had always overlooked. In the protagonist, the author crafts a character who learns to trust her own abilities and judgment, breaking her proclivity to find her identity in the success of others. The straightforward and fast-paced writing style is unencumbered by excessive description but can come off a little shallow at times. This is a good pick for struggling or reluctant readers, especially those who gravitate to realistic fiction with a quickly moving plot. VERDICT Recommended as an additional purchase.-Rose Garrett, Cliff Valley School, Atlanta, GA

     Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been perfect: 
   amazing boyfriend
   the coolest friends
   the most desirable dorm
But it’s far from it. To her dismay, Skylar’s not going to rule senior year because she’s stuck in Abbot House, a tiny dorm known for, well, nothing. Living with a group of strangers everyone thinks is lame is bad enough. Worse is that Skylar wasn’t exactly truthful about how she spent summer break in Los Angeles—and her little white lie is causing her...

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