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Authors: Jessica Brody
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11. Sandra, who gave me that crash course.
12. Jane Startz and Kane Lee, who are giving Lexi a shot at the big screen.
13. Elizabeth Fithian.
14. Ksenia Winnicki.
15. Joy Dallanegra-Sanger.
16. Kathryn Hurley.
17. Jessica Zimmerman.
18. Jon Yaged.
19. Eileen Lawrence.
20. Dan Farley.
21. Jean Feiwel.
22. Jim Morris (a.k.a. “Tagline Jim”), for his brilliant mastery of words.
23. Nikki Hart, who can spin straw into gold. At least on paper.
24. Marianne Merola, who rocks the foreign rights.
25. Ella Gaumer, who is the busiest person I know and yet always manages to find time.
26. Christina Diaz, without whom my world would stop turning and my Web sites would be sad, empty pages, lost in cyberspace.
27. Brittany Carlson, who lets me be her “buddy.”
28. Leslie, Billy, and Landon Euell, who are my family away from family.
29. Brad Gottfred, who is talented and amazing and all-around awesome (and not just because he bought me an iPad … although that helps).
30. José and Pepe, who corrected my Spanish.
31. Noémie Demol, who corrected my French.
32. Taylor Coliee, who is a superstar and a gorgeous human being and should never ever forget it.
33. Jason Fitzpatrick, who makes everything look good and who puts up with misbehaving ruffles.
34. All the talented actors of the
My Life Undecided
book trailer (Troy Osterberg, Kellan Rhude, Riley Chambers, Emily Skinner, Jennefer Ludwigsen, Hoyt Richards, Kendra Landeen, Reagan Drown, Cesar Manzanera, Rob Thelusma, Jessica Bennett, Cindy Vela, Madisen Hill, Gina Cecutti, and Megan Yelaney), who are rock stars of all ages.
35. All the amazing crew of the
My Life Undecided
book trailer (Jason Fitzpatrick, Holly Clark, Terra Brody, Monica Giselle, Adrian Ranieri, Jason Bell, Charlie Fink, and Clark Muller).
36. The voices and musical talent of Savannah Outen, Josh Golden, and Gerald Brunskill, who make me want to quit writing and learn to play the guitar.
37. Dean Bennett, who always welcomes me to his campus.
38. Thatcher Peterson and Matt Moran at Company 3 in Santa Monica.
39. Sunny Kruschwitz and Kathy Alfeld, who introduced me to my first love: the French language.
40. Bob Simpson, who inspired “Mr. Simpson.”
41. Jade Corn and Cori Ashley, who are champions of children’s books.
42. All the bookstores around the world who continue to put my books on the shelf.
43. All the book bloggers who have featured my books on their wonderful sites.
44. Viviane Cordeiro.
45. Hilit Meir.
46. Claire Kidman.
47. Melissa Fairley.
48. Tsui-lun Liu.
49. Mark Stankevich.
50. Jeff Levin.
51. Steve Glodney.
52. You. The reader of books. Thank you on behalf of all my characters (Jennifer, Maddy, Brooklyn, and now Lexi). It’s you who make them real. It’s you who give them life.
ALSO BY JESSICA BRODY
My Life Undecided
The Karma Club
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Copyright © 2012 by Jessica Brody
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2012
eBook edition, July 2012
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Brody, Jessica.
52 reasons to hate my father / Jessica Brody. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
ISBN 978-0-374-32303-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4299-5523-2 (e-book)
[1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction. 3. Work—Fiction. 4. Wealth—Fiction. 5. Inheritance and succession—Fiction. 6. Social classes—Fiction. 7. Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Fifty-two reasons to hate my father.
PZ7.B786157Aaj 2012
[Fic]—dc22
2011012931
eISBN 9781429955232