Beauty Shop for Rent...
fully equipped, inquire within
by Laura Bowers

    BEAUTY SHOP FOR RENT by Laura Bowers
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 6+
    Release Date:  4/07
    Publisher:  Harcourt
    Reviewed by:  Safia Abdul
    Rating:  5 Stars


    There is nothing like Polly's Parlor, where a free dose of gossip comes with a manicure.  

    For Abbey Garner, her great-grandmother's old-fashioned beauty shop and the familiar elderly customers are home
    and family to Abbey ever since her mother left her several years ago.  Now fourteen-year-ld Abbey works
    alongside her great-grandmother, Granny Po, giving perms and haircuts and investing her earnings towards her goal
    of becoming a millionaire before the age of thirty-five.

    But in the last few years, the outdated Polly's Parlor hasn't been doing too well due to competition from more
    modern beauty salons.  In fact, Granny Po has been trying to rent out the beauty shop, but nobody has been
    interested...until now. Gena is a fun and ambitious woman with big plans to turn the beauty shop into a friendly
    modern-day spa.  Can the beauty shop be transformed and still remain Abbey's home?

    In addition, between work, high school, and thinking about boys, Abbey is also worrying about her fragile,
    depressed mother.  When she shows up for a surprise visit, Abbey's world is about to be turned completely upside
    down.

    BEAUTY SHOP FOR RENT is the story of a girl growing up and trying to find a place in the world.  Realistic, yet
    humorous, this is a satisfying novel that I'm sure many readers will be able relate to.