Description: A juicy new series begins about fashionable Los Angeles teens who start their own clothing label. Includes black-and-white fashion sketches throughout by the author and real-life fashion label Compai.

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Children's Literature Review: Appearance is everything at Wilson Prep. The halls are filled with designer-clothes-clad students. Porsches and Jaguars fill the parking lot. Against this backdrop, we meet four girls. There is Janie, a scholarship student from the Valley who shops at Goodwill and drives an old Volvo. Petra, is the beautiful daughter of a Hollywood plastic surgeon, who does everything in her power to hide her beauty. There is Charlotte, the popular self-centered rich girl. Melissa is the half African-American, half Asian-American narcissistic daughter of a rap singer. Saying these girls are not friends is an understatement. When they are thrown together in a special studies class and given the task of creating their own fashion label, fireworks ensue. Their story is told in alternating points of view, each girl's chapter starts with a description of what she is wearing and it does not get much deeper than that. The traditional teen issues of family, peers, popularity, and boys are present, but glossed ...

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