Review: Paper or Plastic - Vivi Barnes - February 2015 Alexis is sick of being the odd one out in her family, the one that never gets any attention as all her mother's focus seems to be on her younger sister Rory aka Aurora's beauty pageants and the world of debutantes which Alexis definitely isn't. She is the jock of the family and loves her softball but of course, according to her mother Softballers do not make money or have careers. One day while out with her friend Courtney, Alexis decides to shoplift a tube of lipstick. Unfortunately the pair end up getting caught, and Alexis's parents called. The store owner strikes up a deal with Alexis's mother either have this on her daughter's permanent record or Alexis can work in the store for the summer. Her mother chooses the latter for her, which sucks as there goes her summer plans and softball camp. Alexis turns up for her first day at Smartmart which reading this book reminded me of a mixture b...

Paper or Plastic by  Vivi Barnes   Release Date: 02/03/15 Entangled Teen Summary from Goodreads: Welcome to SmartMart, where crime pays minimum wage... Busted . Alexis Dubois just got caught shoplifting a cheap tube of lipstick at the local SmartMart. She doesn’t know what’s worse—disappointing her overbearing beauty-pageant-obsessed mother for the zillionth time…or her punishment. Because Lex is forced to spend her summer working at the store, where the only things stranger than the staff are the  customers . Now Lex is stuck in the bizarro world of big-box retail. Coupon cutters, jerk customers, and learning exactly what a “Code B”  really  is (ew). And for added awkwardness, her new supervisor is the totally cute—and adorably geeky—Noah Grayson. Trying to balance her out-of-control mother, her pitching position on the softball team, and her secret crush on the school geek makes for on...