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~~Day one: a song~~
~~Day two: a picture~~
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

The book: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart

I've been fascinated with boarding school books since I read the Bruno and Boots series when I was in elementary school. I'm even writing a boarding school book right now. But this book is not like the boarding school books that have come out in, say, the past five years: kind of Gossip Girl-like, or like Prep (which I hated) or any of the supernatural boarding schools that have popped up lately. Basically, here's the flap copy:

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.Her father's "bunny rabbit."
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Laundau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer.
Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society.
Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew's lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.

And then there's the accolades! The Disreputable History was a Printz Honor winner last year (the Printz Award is the YA lit equivalent of a Newberry), a National Book Award Finalist, and it won the Cybil Award for Best Young Adult Novel--among other awards. The hardcover edition is currently $6.20 on Amazon, and it's probably cheaper than the paperback edition (and I think the hardcover has far superior cover art too, but that's kind of irrelevant). Check it out.

Random question: is there a girl equivalent of a boner killer?