Melody Carlson is the prolific author of more than 200 books for women, teens and children. The recipient of numerous writing awards including the Rita and the RT Career Achievement Award, she makes her home in Oregon with her husband.
In Carlson's (the Diary of a Teenage Girl series) latest, which
launches the On the Runway series, 18-year old narrator Erin, who
loves being behind the camera, and her 19-year old sister, Paige,
who shines in front of one, land a contract to star in a
fashion-focused TV show. Erin both admires her stunning,
smooth-talking, fashion-expert sister, and cringes at Paige's
manipulations and thoughtlessness, which Paige has ample
opportunity to exhibit when the show's producers plug them into a
popular teen reality show. While trying to maintain a critical
distance from the glamour, staged intrigue, and cattiness of this
new world, Erin seeks a moral compass as she wrestles with her
ex-boyfriend's reappearance, and wonders how to reconcile her
Christian values with her work and how to be a good sister.
Fast-paced action, driven by the social media of cell phones,
Facebook, and Twitter, highlights both the thrills and stressors of
modern teenage life, where the private becomes instantly public,
and the line between reality and acting is hard to find. --
Publisher's Weekly
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