Alphas : a novel

Format:

Book

Title:

Alphas : a novel

Author:

Harrison, Lisi.

ISBN:

9780316035798

9780316078924

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Little, Brown, 2009.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 20 cm

Series title(s):

Alphas.

Number in series:

General Note:

"Poppy."

Summary:

Select teenaged girls are invited to join the exclusive and futuristic Alpha Academy, where they must compete feverishly to establish and maintain their status among their extremely competitive peers.

Reading Level:

Ages 12 and up.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.9 8 Quiz 132771 English fiction.

Subject(s):

Boarding schools -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Competition (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

At OCD the losers are tormented.

At Alpha Academy, they're sent home.

Skye Hamilton has scored an invitation to the ultra-exclusive Alphas-only boarding school where beta is spelled LBR . What happens when the country's best, brightest, and hawtest begin clawing and scratching their way to the top?

Author Notes

Author Lisi Harrison was born in Toronto, Canada on July 29, 1970. She majored in film at McGill University in Montreal for two years before transferring to Emerson College in Boston, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in creative writing.

After graduation, she moved to New York City to work for MTV and stayed there for 12 years. She started out in a casting job on a game show called Lip Service and worked her way up to Head Writer and then Senior Director of Development. She created and developed new shows like One Bad Trip and Room Raiders for the network while Senior Director of Development. She wrote the first two books of the Clique Series while still working at MTV. She became a full-time author in June 2004.

(Bowker Author Biography)