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Life at Sixteen #3

by Cheryl Lanham

When people imagine what life at sixteen is like, they usually think of proms, football games, and first dates. But the truth is, there's a lot more to it than that. Life at sixteen can actually get pretty complicated.

JUST ASK COURTNEY...

It's the first day of the new school year, and Courtney is sure it will be her best year ever. She's got great friends, cool clothes, and just about everything money can buy. She even made the cheerleading squad But all of Courtney's plans for the perfect year vanish when her father loses his job and her parents reveal that they are flat broke. Instead of buying her cheerleader's uniform, Courtney now must find a job, -- any job, -- to help her family get by.

Courtney knows that money isn't everything.

But how can her family survive without it?

Genres: Young Adult

1 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Cheryl Lanham was born on 11 October 1948 in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, USA. Her family moved to Southern California in 1959 and she grew up in Pasadena. After graduating from California State University, she decided to work her way around the world and took off for England. She didn’t get much further because she met Richard James Arguile, the Englishman who became her husband, got married on May 1976, and had two children, Matthew and Amanda. While working in international shipping, she decided to pursue her dream and become a writer – which, of course, is the best job ever. She has written romance novels as Sarah Temple, and Young Adult novels as Cheryl Lanham. As Emily Brightwell, she is the author of the “Mrs. Jeffries” mysteries.

Cheryl Lanham Arguile returned to California, where she lives with her husband and a cranky old cat named Kiwi.

Reviews

[Marbs · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was just a little bit too simplistic for me personally. I liked the way Courtney turned out in the end, but I was annoyed with the way she acted at first. Watching her transition from the rich life to a middle/lower-class lifestyle made me complain out loud. There were some parts that made me literally close the book just so I could look at the cover and yell, "What the hell is wrong with you?!" Overall I thought it was an okay read.