Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series
Author: Meg Cabot
Book 5 in the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
Pages: 208
Published: 2010
Age: 8+
Allie is mega excited when Erica's big sister Missy enters the regional Twirltacular baton competition and Erica is allowed to bring all her best friends to watch. But Allie is also invited to Brittany Hauser's birthday party on the same day and will be driven in a stetch limo to the famous Glitterati store, followed by a night in a five-star hotel. Allie really wants to see Missy perform and she thinks Brittany and her friends are snobby, but riding in a limo is a lifelong dream! She decides a little white lie is the best way to keep everyone happy until everything goes spectacularly wrong and Allie realises she's made a big mistake. Allie will have to learn the hard way that bending the rules is a dangerous game . . .
About the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series
Books in series order
- 1.Moving Day(2008)
- 2.The New Girl(2008)
- 3.Best Friends and Drama Queens(2009)
- 4.Stage Fright(2009)
- 5.Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out(2010)
- 6.Blast from the Past(2010)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
Allie Finkle is nine years old. She has two annoying little brothers and a dog called Marvin. She's also got a bunch of rules, most of them—like 'Don't get a pet that poops in your hand'— having been discovered through bitter experience. In this funny, fast-moving series, Allie makes (and breaks) rules all over the place as she deals with everything that life can throw at her.
For instance, Allie absolutely DOES NOT want to move house. Moving means leaving behind her pretty pink room and her best friend, Mary Kay. The new house is cold, old, dark and creepy, and there is almost definitely a ZOMBIE HAND living in the attic! Listening to your parents is a golden rule, but how can Allie convince her family that moving is a very bad idea?