Kraut, Julie (Author)

Jun 2009. 320 p. Delacorte, paperback, $8.99. (9780385737371). Delacorte, library edition, $11.99.

(9780385906616).

Fifteen-year-old Laney’s privileged Park Avenue world comes undone when her mother sends her bred-inthe-bone Manhattanite daughter to a rustic camp in the Pennsylvania boonies. The Gossip Girl–lite meets Green Acres premise works as Laney deals with her new status as urban outcast. Eventually, she notices another outsider appreciating her sarcastic asides, and some life lessons, as well as friendship, are just around the cabin corner. A dollop of romance with a boy Laney knew in New York also has its satisfactions. Although the pop-culture references will date the novel fast, for the present it offers quick, humorous escapism.