Pulling Princes (Calypso Chronicles) - Hardcover

Tyne O'Connell is the author of several successful romantic comedy novels, articles, and screenplays. This is her first novel for young readers. She and her teenage daughter live in London.

Grade 7-10–Calypso, an LA teenager with movie-industry parents, attends a posh British boarding school. Having no title and no landed-gentry relatives, she has a hard time fitting in. So when she pretends that her mother's gay personal assistant is her new boyfriend, her popularity improves. Not only do the other girls make a fuss over her new guy, but the teen also gains self-confidence and the prince's attention during a fencing match. He starts calling her cell phone and they begin a budding romance. One big problem–Honey, one of the most popular girls in school, also has her eye on him, and she starts to make life truly miserable for Calypso. The story is jam-packed with posh toffs, true friends, late-night sneak outs for vodka drinking, silly fads, English slang, and plenty of boarding-school antics. Budding Anglophiles can add "pulling fit boys" (a phrase that basically translates to "making out with hot guys") to their lexicon, and will soak up the flood of upper-class British culture in this book. The story is milder than Louise Rennison's stories about Georgia Nicolson (HarperCollins) but similar in tone and style; fans of Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series and Zoey Dean's "A-List" series (both Little, Brown) should enjoy it.–Angela J. Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Hillsboro, OR
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