Lip Gloss Jungle

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You Say You Want A Revolution?

It was over a month since Ashley Spencer's blowout Super-Sweet Thirteen birthday party, and Lauren Page was still recovering from the excess of that celebration, not to mention exhaustion from her "relaxing" winter vacation in the Italian Alps. Her mother had determined that they would become part of the international jet set and had spent all of winter break dragging her family to a host of balls and benefits.

Lauren was glad to be back home for the first day of the spring semester. But she'd overslept that morning and was late meeting the other Ashleys -- Miss Spencer herself, plus best friends Ashley "A.A." Alioto and Ashley "Lili" Li -- at the Fillmore Starbucks. In fact, she was so late that all the other girls already had their venti decaf soy lattes, each cup nestled into a matching pink cozy (designed by Ashley and handwoven by an artisans' collective in Ecuador), and were waiting impatiently to climb the hill to Miss Gamble's school.

There wasn't even time for Lauren to order a drink -- not that she particularly liked decaf soy lattes. But that wasn't the point. Being in the Ashleys m ... read full excerpt from: The Ashleys ebook