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July 2021 Mini-Reviews

July 9, 2021April 6, 2022 I'm All Booked Up YA

There’s a theme for our July mini-reviews: college admissions!

Review: Admission by Julie Buxbaum

Chloe Wynn Berringer cannot wait to start college in Southern California, close to where she grew up. Everything in her life is perfect: her best friend, hot boyfriend and wealthy lifestyle.

Then one morning she’s greeted by the FBI, who arrest her mother for allegedly being involved in the college admissions scandal. Everything in her life falls apart overnight. No college, her friends ignore her and her parents spend every day with the best legal team money can buy.

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Reviews, Then and Now

Then and Now: The Ivy by Lauren Kunze

July 5, 2020May 24, 2022 I'm All Booked Up YA

The first of a four book series, The Ivy focuses on Callie Andrews’s first semester at Harvard. Lauren Kunze, with her friend Rina Onur, started this series while students at Harvard. They refuse to admit how much of the plot actually happened. 😉

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