The Gossip File

Dirt Diary Series

Author: Anna Staniszewski

Book 3 in the Dirt Diary series

Pages: 224

Published: 2015

Age: 11+

The Gossip File:

- Chandra lets little kids pee in the pool.
- Melody stole $ from the cafe register.
- Ava isn’t who she says she is…

Ava is cool. Ava is confident. Ava is really Rachel Lee who is lying her butt off.
Rachel is visiting her dad at a resort in sunny Florida and is ready for two weeks of relaxing poolside, trips to Disney World and NOT scrubbing toilets. Until her dad’s new girlfriend, Ellie, begs Rachel to help out at her short-staffed cafe. That’s when Rachel kinda sorta adopts a new identity to impress the cool, older girls who work there.

Ava is everything Rachel wishes she could be. But when the girls ask "Ava" to help add juicy resort gossip to their file, Rachel's not sure what to do…especially when one of the entries is a secret about Ellie.

About the Dirt Diary Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.The Dirt Diary(2014)
  2. 2.The Prank List(2014)
  3. 3.The Gossip File(2015)
  4. 4.The Truth Game(2016)

Reading age: 11+ years

This series should be read in order.

WANTED: Maid for the most popular kids in 8th grade.

Cleaning up after the in-crowd gets Rachel all the best dirt.

Rachel can't believe she has to spend her Saturdays scrubbing other people's toilets. So. Gross. But she kinda, sorta stole $287.22 from her college fund that she's got to pay back ASAP or her mother will ground her for life. Which is even worse than working for her mother's new cleaning business. Maybe. After all, becoming a maid is definitely not going to help her already loser-ish reputation.

But Rachel picks up more than smelly socks on the job. As maid to some of the most popular kids in school, Rachel suddenly has all the dirt on the 8th grade in-crowd. Her formerly boring diary is now filled with juicy secrets. And when her crush offers to pay her to spy on his girlfriend, Rachel has to decide if she's willing to get her hands dirty...