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Random House Children's Books · Paperback · February 1, 2022
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- Who it’s for
- A teenager’s dream-school future unravels into a tense reckoning with family lies and personal guilt.
- Genres
- College & Uni YA, YA Stories About Parents, YA Crime & Law
- Published
- Random House Children's Books, February 1, 2022
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Lie. Cheat. Bribe. How far would you go to get into your dream school? How far would your parents go? Inspired by the recent college admissions scandal, this ripped-from-the-headlines novel sees one teenage girl's privileged world shatter when her family's lies are exposed. It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer-she has it all-money, privilege, and a ticket to the college of her dreams.
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Or at least she did until the FBI came knocking on her front door, guns at the ready, and her future went up in smoke. Now her B list celebrity mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal, and Chloe might be the next one facing charges. The public is furious, the headlines are brutal, and the US attorney is out for blood. As everything she's taken for granted starts to slip away, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened, but also with the examination of her own guilt. How much did she really know-or guess? Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat? And what does it really mean to be complicit? The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country in this timely tale of the hyper elite and the hyper competitive, and the lengths they go to stay at the top.
When Success Costs
A teenager’s dream-school future unravels into a tense reckoning with family lies and personal guilt.
Come here for
- A sharp look at privilege, competition, and college admissions.
- The uneasy question of where complicity begins.
Expect
- Headlines, public fury, and pressure closing in.
- Moral questions without easy answers.
Where it sits
| YA Crime & Law | 69% |
|---|---|
| College & Uni YA | 56% |
| YA Stories About Parents | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Parents
- College & Uni YA
- Class & Inequality for Teens
- Authors
- Julie Buxbaum
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- February 1, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Parents