Book Review: "Manderlay Prep"

By Gloria Brookens

Rumors, rumors, rumors. Who has not had a rumor created about them! No matter where you live or where you go, there are going to be rumors. They can be about you or someone you call a friend. Whoever they might be about, rumors will always hurt especially when they are a sharp knife that cuts deeply into your skin -- or the ones that graze the surface like a paper cut.

Rumors can be from some you do not even know sometimes, but how to deal with it when the rumors are spreading from someone you live in the same household? Are you supposed to ignore or spread some about them? The best way to make people realize that a rumor is just a rumor is by letting that truth become known.

Manderley Prep is full of the popular or the geeks. On campus everyone have money and wear the best of clothes. Never seen with last issue clothing on; they are there to impress. What they are impressing is not the books or the teacher but each other.

We all have heard or read the fairy tale Cinderella. In the book, Cindy really does live that life. When her father passed away her stepmother and two evil stepsisters continue to live in the house her father own and make her feel like she is nothing.

Entering high school with her evil stepsisters who are seniors they began to spread rumors. They tell her that they cannot be seen with her. She is not cool enough to be with them or even be known that they are related in any kind of way.

When the nice handsome kid comes to school his eye catches Cindy since she was the only one to do something when he drove past. Everyone looked at her and laughed but he thought something different. Her stepsisters soon come aware and know that they are to cute for him to pass. But will he pass up her two evil stepsisters for her? Or will he pass her for the two evil stepsisters because of the rumors going around about her?