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So many Cinderella stories, oi vey! However, this one has spatterings of the classic, but still unique enough to be interesting. Definitely a great book for middle grades and even high school, I am quite sure it will be a crowd pleaser for many, especially those who know Northern Virginia and can picture exactly what park needs trimming, the parking lot at Dulles, or going to a music concert in the Plains.
A young girl is banished by her stepmother to her room over the summer for a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time incident. Her only solace is starting up a clandestine graphic design business (thank you, fairy Godmother). She also has to do some community service where she meets some new friends and discovers some growing up realizations herself. In library world, it's called bildungsroman. Seriously there is a word for that- I didn't make it up.
Despite the predictable and somewhat simplistic story, it is a great book for people to read to get a new perspective of someone else's shoes. You can never go wrong with that theme.