Title: The Preppy Problem
Author: Stephanie Austin
Publisher: Fawcett / Ballantine
Date: 1984
ISBN: 0-449-70036-4
Length: 157 pages
Quote: “But I am doing what I want to
do. I'm doing what every girl
wants to do!”
Melissa
“Missy” Cartwright is busy holding her position as the queen of
the popular crowd when Stephen McRae says he's “not convinced”
that she's doing what every girl
wants to do. Sure enough, after a few more weeks of being the perfect
date to fit into Kenneth “Kip” Morgan's perfect image, Melissa
starts to feel just a teensy bit confined by her own act. Why can't
she add a few new friends who don't belong (yet) to the popular
crowd? (“Intellectuals, not socials,” the preppy crowd at my
school would have called them, meaning it as a compliment. At
Melissa's school the “social” sub-species of preppies seem to be
dominant.) Why does she have to wear only the colors and styles Kip
recommends? And could Stephen possibly be more fun to
date than Kip is?
This is a clean, age-appropriate, frivolous teen romance, with lots of
statements made through fashion choices rather than words. If the
styles aren't the ones teenagers wear these days, teen readers should
at least have a good time decoding my generation's dress code...and
the exercise might even give them some idea how silly their own
fashion angst is, as well as convincing them that their parents have
survived similar silliness.
A Google search shows that a writer known as Stephanie Austin is still alive, and has a web site through which she can't be contacted, making it hard to be sure that she's the same Stephanie Austin. On the assumption that she is, The Preppy Problem is offered as a Fair Trade Book: $5 per book, $5 per package for shipping; of this $10 we'll send Austin or a charity of her choice $1. Payments may be sent to either address at the bottom of the screen.
A Google search shows that a writer known as Stephanie Austin is still alive, and has a web site through which she can't be contacted, making it hard to be sure that she's the same Stephanie Austin. On the assumption that she is, The Preppy Problem is offered as a Fair Trade Book: $5 per book, $5 per package for shipping; of this $10 we'll send Austin or a charity of her choice $1. Payments may be sent to either address at the bottom of the screen.
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