The Real Real

Name: The Real Real
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Emma McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780061788086

Author: Emma McLaughlin

Narrator: Mandy Siegfried

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/19/2009

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women, Social Themes

Synopsis

The bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries introduce a new heroine to root for: Jesse O'Rourke, coffee barista, high school senior, and unwitting reality TV star. Imagine there was never a Laguna Beach, a Newport Harbor, the shimmering Hills. Imagine that your hometown—your school—is the first place XTV descends to set up cameras. Now imagine they've trained them on you. When Jesse O'Rourke gets picked for a ""documentary"" being filmed at her school in the Hamptons she's tempted to turn down the offer. But there's a tuition check attached to being on the show, and Jesse needs the cash so she can be the first in her family to attend college. All she has to do is trade her best friend for the glam clique she's studiously avoided, her privacy for a 24/7 mike, and her sense of right and wrong for ""what sells on camera."" . . . At least there's one bright spot in the train wreck that is her suddenly public senior year: Jesse's crush has also made the cast. As the producers manipulate the lives of their ""characters"" to heighten the drama, and Us Weekly covers become a regular occurrence for Jesse, she must struggle to remember one thing: the difference between real and the real real.

About Emma McLaughlin

Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus work together in New York City and are the authors of the new novel Between You and Me. They are also the authors of The Nanny Diaries, which was made into a major motion picture, the New York Times bestsellers Citizen Girl, Dedication, and Nanny Returns, and their first YA novel, The Real Real.

About Mandy Siegfried

Mandy Siegfried has worked at theaters in New York, on and off Broadway, and around the country; her film work includes School of Rock, Winter Passing, Liberty Maine, The Out-of-Towners, and St. Andrew's Girls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by The Dreamer Reader on August 17, 2009

Wow, I will never look at reality television the same way again. The Good: It's just SO creative and unique and just fantastic. The idea is very pop culture-ish, but unlike the really pop culture-ish books, readers will be able to read this book over and over again. Kudos for the authors for writing......more

Goodreads review by lacy on October 15, 2018

tw: use of word r*tarded, sexual assault, targeted bullying and harassment, underage drinking I'm not quite sure these authors are for me. The first two books I have read by them are from the Nanny Diaries. I enjoyed the first one but I wasn't super keen on the second one. The Nanny Diaries were sill......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on September 01, 2009

XTV, a popular television network has decided to film a reality TV series about teenagers living in Hampton Beach, NY. Jesse, our "hero", is chosen (much to her surprise, and many others) as one of the 6 teens that the show will be shadowing. Everything begins to spiral out of control, though, as th......more

Goodreads review by Brandi on January 19, 2012

I am going to tell you all a secret. I am addicted to a certain reality show that features men and women who keep the bronzer making people in business. The Real Real gives a peak into what the lives of these so called "reality TV" stars might be like. Jesse is a character who has her life turned up......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 17, 2012

Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com The writing duo that brought us THE NANNY DIARIES have ventured out into the young adult genre. And the two have written a hit. Jesse goes through the motions of the interview that all the students at her high school have to sit through. The hot TV channel XTV w......more