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American Beauty: An A-List Novel Paperback – September 6, 2006

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It's graduation time for the A-List crew. That means lavish yacht parties, designer caps and gowns, and saying bye-bye to high school for good.

Despite the festivities, Anna isn't in a partying mood. Ben's been acting distant and she is worried. Maybe her father's hot tattooed intern, Caine Manning, will help cheer Anna up! Ever since her illicit kiss with Parker, Sam has been Eduardo-less and heartbroken. But hopefully Sam will use her brains and considerable means to get creative about winning Eduardo back. And infamous Cammie? She couldn't care less about graduation, not when she's so close to unraveling the mystery of her mother's death. She'll stop at nothing to find out the truth.
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  1. Book 7 of 10
    The A-List
  2. Print length
    288 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publication date
    September 6, 2006
  5. Grade level
    10 and up
  6. Reading age
    15 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    5.24 x 0.87 x 7.99 inches
  8. ISBN-10
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Zoey Dean is the author of the national bestselling A-List and her adult novel How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls is now a CW original TV series entitled Privileged.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Poppy; First Edition (September 6, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316010944
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316010948
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.24 x 0.87 x 7.99 inches
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E. Woontner
5.0 out of 5 stars The A-list, the guiltiest of guilty pleasures!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2006
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I have read the A-list from the beginning and there is one main reason why it became one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Two Words: Sam Sharpe. This is my favorite character, I just love they way she developed, her approach to things, her cynicism that hides a very emotionally troubled young woman. She is the less cliched of all the four main characters (Anna...classy, prim and proper Hampton girl, yawn..., Cammie the uberbitch always on the verge of redeeming herself and Dee the real LosAngelino character, with all her ingenuity, incense sticks and sojourns in the loony bin). These stories, developments and characters are totally unreal, but hey people, this is FICTION! And meant to be FUN! The characters won't cover their heads in ashes, donate their money to the poor and join Mother Teresa's nuns...It is so exaggerated that it is fascinating for a European like yours truly...

Only CAVEAT: I would actually NOT recommend this book to teens, because many of them could mistake it for reality, or set their goals way over the top.
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Michelle A. McDonough
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book. Addicting Series.
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2009
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Zoey Dean knows how to write a great book and keep a reader really interested. Of course, when something climaxes she would switch gears to a different character's drama leaving you wanting more. This type of character set is really fun to read about even though I'm definitely not teenager anymore.
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puffy84
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016
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I love this book, so adventurous and juicy- as well as unpredictable. Sort of like Ann and the French Kiss.
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Marion A. Knott
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautyful!
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2013
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Amanda loves certain types of books and Grandma loves to supply them for her. Guess where I can go to find this. You're right. Amazon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Great series for a young girl.
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C.Scarlett
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read!
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
American Beauty
A-list novel # 7
By: Zoey Dean
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company.
ISBN: 0 - 316 - 01094 - 4
Rating: Must read!

American Beauty is a delicious treat for anyone who loves drama, romance, and betrayal of the young and rich if you love the Gossip Girl and The It Girl series you will love the A-list novels. There is just as much drama as there are top name designers. However the A-list is set in good old Los Angeles, California, which works well for the series.

In American Beauty we are once again following Anna in her quest to be more outgoing since her initial move from New York to LA in the first novel The A-list in this seventh fascicle we follow Anna and her new friends Sam, Dee, and Cammie (who is actually her enemy but they are in the same circle) as they prepare to graduate from high school and move on to the next stage of their lives.

We have Anna who seems to be the main character of the book that is privileged and has come from old money originally from Manhattan she is modest and well-mannered. She was raised much differently from the girls in California which is what gives this series such a nice contrast because it really is about her coming to California to change herself.

Then we have Sam who is the first to befriend Anna. She is the total opposite of Anna she comes from new money her father is a very famous movie star and she is spoiled, popular, and dramatic but she is also very loyal and has a big heart. Although she only lets her friends see it because in Hollywood, it is very important to show people you have the power.

Then there's Cammie who has been Sam's best friend since they were little. She is the ultimate bad girl her father is a talent agent and he is known for being one of the toughest men in the business. She is the one with the most power in high school. She is most definitely selfish and spoiled and she's compared to a Python a lot.

Last but not least we have Dee. She is friends with everybody. She can be a little out there in her ways of thinking and strange at times but she's loyal and a very sweet, sweet girl.

Those are the main characters that the book focuses on as well as their significant others just like the rest of the series. Some new relationships are formed and others are left hanging by a thread. This book was a great volume in the set and was one of the best in the series yet. It tied up a lot of loose ends that had been forming in some of the previous books. However the one thing I do not like about all of the books in this series is that every time you finish a book and start a new one, you lose a few weeks. There are always a few weeks skipped in between there which disappoints me because with the way that the last one ended I wanted to read about a certain trip. That's all I'll say. So I don't give anything away in case you haven't read the one before this.

I have always loved the portrayal of the characters in the series and this book is no different. The characters were three-dimensional their character delineation was direct and with new characters there were developments that occurred slowly. I really do love how the characters are portrayed with so much detail and so much background there is always a little mystery left of the characters so there's always more to come but you know enough to get attached to them and that is really brilliant. It really pulls you in and you begin to relate to the character. At least that's what I did.

I found American Beauty to be one of the more realistic books and relatable in the series. I could easily see myself doing the same thing in most of the scenes as the girls did or reacting the same way, such as Sam going after Eduardo and Anna not willing to just forgive and forget with Ben towards the end.
The setting of Los Angeles works fantastically with American Beauty as well as with the rest of the series. It shows the glamour and difference in Anna's life back then and Anna's life now. The setting helps to show the contrast between Manhattan and LA they really are total opposites and the A-list novels show in detail how that is. That is what Anna is trying to do with herself show a whole new Anna to the world and to herself. It also shows a little inside peek into the lives of the rich and famous teenagers that we wonder so much about.

I did notice a few typos throughout the book such as calling Cammie, Anna, which to me was very humorous considering their enemies and Cammie would be very angry by being mistaken for Anna.

These girls are an unlikely group that became friends, sans Anna and Cammie, they had gone through so many things together throughout this series and they have grown a lot and it shows in this book. I love that Anna is constantly at war with herself. It's like breaking old habits I can really relate to that. It's really refreshing when she can break out of her old, "This is How We Do Things" shell and let loose. I find myself rooting for her throughout all of it.

I did find myself getting tired of the Ben and Anna drama in this one. I feel like it's becoming a toxic love story like it hasn't worked already because it's not going to work. I think Anna needs to be paired with somebody else and we need to move on from that and I hope that's where the direction of the next book is going because I'm really feel like there is no way the Ben and Anna story can be continued and it can still be enjoyable.

Overall American Beauty is a must read for teenagers and young adults that love to see how the other half lives. They will gravitate toward the series because it has all the drama, romance, betrayal, and family problems that they all go through themselves only these people are privileged rich kids and they will get to see how they handle it differently and/or similarly to them and makes for a delectable series that teens will not be able to resist.
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Charlie Jan
4.0 out of 5 stars A-List 7: American Beauty
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2006
So... Cammie and Sam try to find out whether her father really killed her mother, Anna thinks something is wrong with Ben and happens to be absolutely right, and Jack and Dee have a great relationship... or so it seems.

The only reason I gave it four stars was because it seemed kind of... I don't know... lacking. I usually have fun seeing what kind of reckless stuff the people do but this book didn't really have much in the wild and reckless department. It was kind of serious, more serious than the others.
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Lizbeth
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book Through and Through
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2006
In American Beauty, Anna's boyfriend, Ben started acting all weird on her for a reason that Anna couldn't understand. Anna then started to hang out with her father's new and tattooed intern, Caine Manning who is just a friend. Sam concocts a shocking yet funny to snag Eduardo back and succeeds, but with a little help from Parker. Cammie confronts her dad in his Hermosa Beach office embarrassing him in front of his entire crew. She finds out more about her mother's death after asking her father by visiting Sam's mom. While this was going on, the BHH a-list attended a party held by their enemies, Pashima and Stephanie. Cammie, Sam, Dee, and Anna devised a plan for revenge. All in all, the seventh a list is an enthralling book with tons of suspense. (You don't really find out about Cammie's mom's death until near the end of the book)
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