After an uneventful freshman year at Alabaster, a prep boarding school, Frankie Landau Banks returns as a blooming, very attractive sophomore. She attracts the interest of popular senior Matthew Livingston, and they begin to see each other regularly. Being a strong and determined young woman, she becomes increasingly incensed by Matthew's involvement and loyalty to the all boys "Secret Order of the Bassett Hounds," a group that included her dad when he was a student there. Through a clever and devious plot to show she is just as smart as the boys, she creates some hilarious pranks with the Bassett Hounds doing her bidding while they think they're receiving orders from their top dog. The shoe finally falls, and Frankie confesses her involvement to the headmaster.
They're are fun additions with Frankie's propensity for word play. She likes to take a word, such as "disgruntle" meaning "discontent" and use "gruntle" as a word meaning "content." An example would be..."She was gruntled by the pleasant weather."
The action picks up and the suspense builds as Frankie embarks on a series of stealthy nighttime maneuvers on campus. Hard to put down and very humerous, this book should be a big hit with young adults.
This book was a 2009 Printz Honor Book
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