How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls

How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls is Chick Lit with capital C and capital L which makes it one of the most delightful books Ive read in a very long time. If it is ever turned into a movie, it will be the most delightful of its kind since Clueless--and one can only hope it will be. Average-girl-wannabe-journalist Maggie Smith moves to Manhattan straight out of Yale, expecting to get a job at one of the big magazines and eliminating her $75,000 debt in no time at all. Unfortunately, real life doesnt work like that, and she is only just scraping by, working at a trashy tabloid, when in the span of two days she is robbed, fired and her apartment burns down. However, as a last favor, her ex-boss makes her an offer she cant refuse. Seventeen-year-old twins Rose and Sage Baker are Palm Beachs version of Paris and Nicole--rich, superficial and never thinking beyond the next party. Maggies challenge is to tutor these two girls and get them into Duke. If she manages this, her debts will be paid off. Teaching girls who do not want to be taught is never easy, so if Maggie wants to pull this one off, she must be able to look the part and act the part. But can you act a part for so long without it becoming part of you? How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls is a lot more substantial than expected at first glance, and I read it in two hours straight, being utterly unable to put it down, and found myself laughing out loud at Zoey Deans masterful plot and witty one-liners. She has a wonderful way with words and manages to create charming characters where you expect to find none. Rose and Sages grandmother is a street-smart and sly elderly woman, willing to take risks for a good cause, and even Rose and Sage themselves--spoiled and bratty as they seem at first--are living proofs that looks can be deceptive. Armchair Interviews says: Quick fun read that gives us hope for spoiled rich girls the world over (or at least in Hollywoodland).

Zoey Dean did it again, I have to honestly say this is a more realistic but entertaining book then her usual A - List novels. This was a very fun book to read especially because it was in first person. I would highly recommend this book to the next person. I hope that Zoey continues to write books that take you through the characters emotions and you honestly feel what Meagan is feeling.

this book actually serves as a great template for crafting a book, chapter by chapter. humorous story and fun reading. a quick read.

This is a great book, quick and easy read. Perfect for young girls who love fashion and celebrity gossip! Absolutely hilarious, and the ending was AMAZING!! I could seriously read it again :-)

Skip this if you are looking for a chick lit heroine who is actually smart. Megan certainly isnt. No perceptive insights into the world of the fabulously wealthy, no witty asides, no scintillating repartee. Instead, you have author Zoey Dane constantly reminding readers of Megans magna cum laude dual degree from Yale. I guess she has to, because there is no indication otherwise that Megan has more than average intelligence. Danes one attempt -Megans suggestion of an article on the possible link between breast cancer and the pill, is laughable. A) Megan works for a gossip rag. B) Even if Megan hadnt a clue about the subject, a modicum of research would have corrected her. Instead, Megan the journalist offers the article idea after reading a single article on hormone replacement therapy. C) In the one incident of unplanned sex on the beach, there was no mention of condoms, so I was left to conclude that smart Megan was on the pill despite thinking it can cause her breast cancer. By the way, this article proposal of Megans is called intelligent and ballsy. *sigh* Also skip this one if the following plot line makes you grimace: Debra, Megans editor tells her you remind me of me at your age and then sends Megan to Palm Beach, partly thinking Megan was perfect for her son. On the otherhand, go ahead and buy the book if it appeals to you to read that the fabulously rich dine on champagne* and caviar (without the carb loaded crackers) everyday and that with a hair iron, spackling, and couture gowns, a sows ear can be turned into a silk purse. The best parts of the book were the multiple choice questions which preface the chapters. *Champagne is full of carbs. But I guess Zoey Dane doesnt know that.

After failing to make it in New York, Megan Smith wonders if she can make it anywhere. However, she buys time when she accepts a deal with the wealthy Baker matriarch. She will receive $1500 a week for tutoring the infamous party animals, her seventeen years old twin granddaughters, Sage and Rose, so that they score an acceptable passing SAT marks. The siblings have the incentive of inheriting $84 million if they succeed, but are not interested in boring book learning. If by some miracle the twins are accepted by their late parents alma mater Duke and it is not the first sign of the End of Days, Megan receives a $75000 bonus. Megan and the twins behave like enemy combatants and the siblings reject any tutoring time that interferes with partying. They also demand Megan change her attitude by showing she cares beyond just a paycheck. As they argue and learn, Megan thinks she might make lot money by writing a book on her adventures with the Bad Baker brats. This is an amusing coming of age tale, but not so much the twins as Megan finds her inner strengths. The chick lit style enables the audience to see how much Megan changes in the course of her tutoring. Although the twins are not the quite the terrors they should have been, as they are more like the students in Welcome Back Kotter, sort of impish and mischievous, but not nasty, contemporary readers will appreciate this humorous look at HOW TO TEACH FILTHY RICH GIRLS who live Cindi Laupers credo want to have fun. Harriet Klausner