The Secret Life of Prince Charming

For Ages: 12 and up
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Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Quinn is surrounded by women who have had their hearts broken. Between her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother, Quinn hears nothing but cautionary tales. She tries to be an optimist -- after all, she's the dependable one, the girl who never makes foolish choices. But when she is abruptly and unceremoniously dumped, Quinn starts to think maybe there really are no good men.

It doesn't help that she's gingerly handling a renewed relationship with her formerly absent father. He's a little bit of a lot of things: charming, selfish, eccentric, lazy...but he's her dad, and Quinn's just happy to have him around again. Until she realizes how horribly he's treated the many women in his life, how he's stolen more than just their hearts. Determined to, for once, take action in her life, Quinn joins forces with the half sister she's never met and the little sister she'll do anything to protect. Together, they set out to right her father's wrongs...and in doing so, begin to uncover what they're really looking for: the truth.

Once again, Deb Caletti has created a motley crew of lovably flawed characters who bond over the shared experiences of fear, love, pain, and joy -- in other words, real life.
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  • Simon Pulse | 
  • 336 pages | 
  • ISBN 9781416959403 | 
  • April 2009 | 
  • Grades 7 and up | 
  • Lexile 760
$18.99 List Price

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Deb Caletti

Q. how did you come to write The Secret Life of Prince Charming?

A. Choosing a partner, especially a life partner, is one of the most important decisions we can make, I think, and its lifetime consequences are sometimes fabulous, sometimes disastrous. A lot of times disastrous. And yet, no one tells you how to actually make this choice. Or they tell you, and the advice is really, really bad. The idea that "relationships take work," for example, can get us stuck in bad places for a very long time. Can you tell that I know about this? Uh huh. REALLY know about this. So, I decided to write everything I knew on the subject, through the voices of the many women that the main character and her sisters meet throughout the book. Maybe I just wanted to put my own bad romantic history to good use. But maybe more than that, this book was an urgent plea of sorts - to my own kids, to all the rest of us with vulnerable hearts. Listen carefully, watch carefully, know your own history.

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