The 2011 Summer Reading Challenge is on! BookSparks PR, Little Bird Publicity and Get Red PR, have partnered to bring you the 15 hottest books of the summer. Each week, we are highlighting a new book. Read along with us or at your own pace. Each week there will be great opportunities to win fabulous prizes, connect with your favorite authors and meet other book lovers. For more information, visit the Summer Reading Challenge page and register, RSVP to our Facebook event or see our previous summer reading blog post.

Here’s Book #6: POPULAZZI by Elise Allen.

ABOUT POPULAZZI

What would you do if you had the chance to erase your past and reinvent yourself as the person you’ve always wanted to be? Would you grab it? Would you stick with it, no matter what the consequences?

Cara Leonard always wished she could be one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and never at a loss for the perfect thing to say. One of the Populazzi.

It always seemed impossible… but now could be her chance.

When Cara moves to a new school just before junior year, her best friend urges her to seize the opportunity and change her life… with the help of The Ladder. Its rungs are relationships, and if Cara transforms herself into the perfect girlfriend for guys higher and higher on the Popularity Tower, she can reach the ultimate goal: Supreme Populazzi, the most popular girl in school.

The Ladder seems like a lighthearted social experiment — a straight climb up — but it quickly becomes gnarled and twisted. And when everything goes wrong, only the most audacious act Cara can think of has a chance of setting things even a little bit right.

Here is author Elise Allen to introduce the book:

Here is this week’s contest, which will be open now until Monday, August 8th:

Leave a comment on the BookSparks PR Facebook page telling us the name of either your nemisis or the most popular person at your high school.