false 328723 4 After the collapse of her parents' marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin School—an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom between classes—leaves her spinning.<BR><BR>When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets her she can't befriend the "cool girls," Mimi accepts the challenge, only to discover that social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the blond, all-American popular girls back in Texas was nothing compared to joining Baldwin's clique of raccoon-eyed waifs. <BR><BR>Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities, all with secrets and dysfunctions that put her own domestic worries to shame, Mimi finds herself in one bizarre situation to the next—a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a jacuzzi in Trump Tower—and in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose sight of herself. <BR><BR>A coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, about brutal honesty and its consequences, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade Social Climber is a novel with heart and a wicked sense of humor. 319345 30 5 2005 The Rise and Fall of a 10th Grade Social Climber total:95|5:21|4:29|3:29|2:12|1:4| 95 336 151 19 1 0 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 16:46:14 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 11:42:28 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:33:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:33:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 19:34:36 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 19:36:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 05 20:11:14 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 20:11:14 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 17:44:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 12:28:16 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 12:06:18 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 12:07:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 29 15:42:45 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 15:44:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 09:20:26 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 20:47:50 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 22 22:41:59 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 22:43:29 -0800 2007 3 0 false true Mon Nov 17 13:32:18 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 13:34:00 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Jan 04 07:03:54 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 10:38:25 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jan 08 16:35:47 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 16:36:34 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 21:06:59 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 02:34:58 -0800 2008 1 3 0 false false Tue Aug 07 19:27:23 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 19:27:56 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed May 23 18:44:05 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 18:44:31 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Oct 15 22:34:58 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 22:36:02 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jul 11 07:56:11 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:57:32 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 11:18:26 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 11:18:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 27 13:05:15 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 13:05:27 -0700 2008 ]]> 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 08:39:47 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 07:03:46 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=328723