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Children’s, Teenage & Educational

SOMETHING REAL

Heather Demetrios

Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen.

Since the show's cancellation, Bonnie™ has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it's about to fall apart . . . because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™'s mom and the show's producers won't let her quit and soon the life that she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie™ needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before. Heather Demetrios' Something Real is the winner of the Susan P. Bloom PEN New England Discovery Award. Heather Demetrios is the recipient of a PEN New England Discovery Award for Something Real. She is the author of Exquisite Captive, a smoldering fantasy about jinni (Balzer + Bray, October 2014). She is currently writing her second novel for Macmillan, I’ll Meet You There. Heather received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Book Published 2014-02-04 by Henry Holt

Comments

This less-than-complimentary look at reality television will intrigue reality TV fans; readers of Lauren Conrad's Fame Game series will be especially pleased at this cynical look at the all-too-common manufactured reality of popular culture.

This chilling satire follows one teenager's efforts to escape from the reality TV franchise financially supporting her large family....Sobering and thought-provoking ideas wrapped in an engaging plot.

Given the oversaturation of reality television and the strength of the celebrity gossip industrial complex, Demetrios's addictive yet thoughtful debut, about a teenage TV star in search of normalcy, comes as a welcome reprieve.

With likable protagonists and snappy dialogue, Something Real credibly zooms in on reality TV's impact on unwilling subjects--a shoo-in for teens drawn to contemporary romance and drama. It will especially attract those who liked the similarly compelling reality show fictional exposés Reality Boy by A. S. King (Little, Brown, 2013) and The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.