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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Project Sweet Life, written by Brent Hartinger. HarperTeen, 2009. $18.50 ages 12 and up


"But even now I didn't choke on my food, because I was still certain he was kidding about my getting a job. Even if in the weirdest reaches of some wild, alternate universe where my father suddenly did think I should get a job the summer of my fifteenth year, even he wasn't so cruel as to bring it up on the night before the start of my vacation."

Everyone knows that the final year before a guy must have a job should be the best summer of his life. Starting at sixteen (one year from now) life begins in earnest and for the next fifty years work will be the norm. That is what Dave, Curtis and Victor are thinking as school ends and fun is the order of their summer. But, their fathers have a completely different idea and that’s where the deception begins. All they need is seven thousand dollars and they are good to go for a summer of celebration and entertainment! Here are three guys who are chock full of ideas that will earn them the needed cash. As with all such campaigns, things do not go as planned and they are constantly thwarted in their efforts to find that sweet life. In a chain of events that will have readers totally engaged, the boys meet some very evil men and a conniving old woman, achieve a number of impressive diversions and even learn something about the history of their city, Tacoma Washington. This is a fun read and will make new fans for this accomplished author.

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