There is only room for one drama queen - which one will take centre stage?
When Lola moves from New York City to boring Dellwood - 'Deadwood' - Falls she thinks her life is over. But she soon discovers a way to shake things up - and it involves taking on the high school's biggest bully, getting the lead in the school play, not to mention crashing a rock star's party! Set in an American high school, this is a fast and funny account of the rivalry between Carla, the resident drama queen, and the newcomer, Lola, by a best-selling author.
Paloma Rose is sixteen and a major TV star. Stardom has given her celebrity, money, franchises, adoring fans-and an agent and parents dependent on her success for their very comfortable lives. But all that could come to an end as Paloma becomes more famous for her bad behavior than her acting and there's talk of canceling the upcoming season.
And then Paloma's worried agent happens upon Oona Ginness working in a coffee shop. She's not as tall and she's not as blond as Paloma, but, details aside, they really could be twins. A plan is born. Send Paloma to a brat camp to become a better person and put the malleable and much nicer Oona in her place. Oona thinks it's a stupid idea, but the money she's offered is hard to resist given the dire circumstances she and her father are in. What can she lose?
The trouble with plans, of course, is that they don't always work out the way they're supposed to.
Sicilee and Maya have been rivals since elementary school. Now in high school, they dislike each other more than ever. Sicilee is the center of the most popular group at Clifton Springs, and Maya is the heart of the hip, trendy set. And neither of them is likely to notice Waneeda, who prefers to eat candy and work as little as possible. None of these girls has a thing in common until Cody Lightfoot, the most drop-dead gorgeous boy imaginable, joins the student body, causing every girl's head to turn. But all Cody seems to care about is the Environmental Club, which has the distinction of being the most unpopular club in the history of the school. Nerdy club or not, none of the three girls can let the other be the first to get a date with Cody. But how far are they prepared to go? Will Waneeda actually join a club? Will Sicilee start reading labels rather than wearing them? Will Maya take up riding her bike to school and eating tofu? With her trademark quick-fire wit, Dyan Sheldon shows just what girls will do for love - and what earth-changing realizations they might have along the way, despite themselves.
In the case of Savanna and Gracie, friendship isn't based on reason, but on the notion that opposites attract. Savanna is a head-turning, attention-seeking, accessorized one of "Those Girls," while Gracie's love of old movies and commitment to protecting the environment put her into the "everyone else" category. It seems as if nothing could come between them until Savanna's lies and dependence on Gracie as a false alibi start to take a toll on their relationship. When Savanna gets between Gracie and her crush, the line separating best friend from worst friend is crossed.
Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she prefers to be called) longs to be in the spotlight. But when she moves to New Jersey with her family and becomes a student at Dellwood "Deadwood" High, Lola finds the role of resident drama queen already filled, by the Born-to-Win, Born-to-Run-Everything Carla Santini. Carla has always gotten everything she wants - until Lola comes along and snags the lead in the school play. Can Lola survive Carla's attempts at retaliation? Once the curtain goes up on the school play, which drama queen will take center stage?
