Betsy Wickwire's Dirty Secret |
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Authors: | Grant, Vicki |
Publisher: | HarperTrophy |
BISAC/Subject: | YAF018060 |
ISBN: | 9781443409162, Related ISBNs: 1443409162, 9781443409162, 9781554681839 |
Classification: | Non-Fiction |
Number of pages: | 352, |
Audience: | Children/juvenile |
Betsy’s life is officially over: Dumped by her boyfriend, betrayed by her best friend. . . . How is she ever going to show her face again?
Determined to avoid everyone and everything from her previous life, Betsy stumbles into an unusual café and an even more unusual girl. Dolores Morris—a mouthy, green-haired outsider Betsy can’t quite remember from school—talks her into starting a cleaning service. Before she knows it, Betsy is down on her knees, dressed like a dust bunny, scrubbing strangers’ toilets.
It’s a long way for the most popular girl in school to have fallen. But Betsy finds comfort in the wine bottles and prescriptions and other dirty secrets she finds hidden in her clients’ homes. She also finds love with a client’s son, friendship with Dolores and a liberated sense of herself. Her new life soon falls apart, though, when valuables begin to go missing from some of the homes she and Dolores have been cleaning. Betsy discovers the hard way that not all dirty secrets can just be swept under the rug.
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