Being Layla Hart by Amanda McKelt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Such a cute book!
April and her friend, Sofia, are not among the popular kids at their school. They make plans for April to say hi to a boy she has a crush on, going to the pool where his water polo team is finishing up a match. As she goes to try and talk to him, his girlfriend and her BFF come up from behind and push her into the pool while video taping the event. As she falls into the pool, all she can think about is the fact that she’s wearing My Little Pony Pinkie panties and she just flashed Zach and everyone else, on video.
When the girls get home, April decides she can never go out of her room again. She deletes all of her social profiles because she can’t bear the thought of all the feedback she’ll get from the Pinkie Pants video.
She and Sofia make up a fake profile, Layla Hart, and decide that April should pretend to be Layla. Somehow when they wake up int he morning, April IS Layla. A quickly devised story of exchange students explains to Aprils mom what happened to April and how Layla came to be living in her house. It also gets her enrolled in school as Layla Hart.
The book travels along the path of April as Layla where all of a sudden it seems like she’s getting everything she wants: a beautiful face, a nice body, popular friends and a boyfriend.
In the end, though, she almost loses her best friend and decides all she really wants is to be herself. This is a really cute book and I highly recommend it! 🙂