Fancy White Trash
by Marjetta Geerling

    FANCY WHITE TRASH by Marjetta Geerling
    Category:  Contemporary
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  5/15/08
    Publisher:  Viking
    Reviewed by:  Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Sisters getting pregnant, mom remarrying three times, car accidents, quick amnesiac episodes -- these all sound like
    another episode of a soap opera. Unfortunately, for Abby Savage, that’s actually her life, and she knows that it
    resembles a soap because that is all she watches.

    With her family’s history of dating and getting pregnant and then getting heartbroken, Abby is ready to find the
    perfect someone with her list of five things called her “One true love plan.”

    1.  Find someone new. Abby knows this firsthand since her sisters’ boyfriends are passed around and recycled
    like a     bottle of water. Of course, this isn’t so easy since the people Abby goes to school with have been the
    same ones since kindergarten.

    2.  No baggage from past relationships allowed. Abby’s sisters find her the perfect babysitter. They just don’t
    understand that it’s their baby.

    3.  Looks aren’t everything. Falling in love isn’t mainly centered on looks!

    4.  Don’t need him. They are always going to make promises, like how her father always promised her wonderful
    gifts for her birthday, but it never happened. Disappointed with this fact, Abby finds it fit to just trust herself.

    5.  Get out of town. How can you find someone new when everyone has dated everyone else?

    With this list, new knowledge on soaps, and a front-row seat at the Fancy White Trash that is her family, Abby will
    soon find that one true love.

    But will it help her get through the three pregnancies currently in her family, all by the same person? And can it stop
    her from getting back with the old boyfriend who broke her heart? Or will she just have to figure out that when
    finding that one true love, lists aren’t necessarily needed?

    Cute, humorous, and very scandalous, FANCY WHITE TRASH is the next guilty pleasure. Just with the first
    chapter, readers can see that Abby’s life screams "Jerry Springer episode."  The obstacles that Abby must face,
    from the mistakes that her family has made to adapting to their lifestyle, will ultimately make readers fall in love with
    her. A novel that is unlike most out there in the market, FANCY WHITE TRASH should be on your “to-read list!”