Wicked Awesome

by Lauren Courcelle

Overview

When you're eleven, it's not wicked weird to have a crush on a popstar. It's arguably wicked normal. But what if one of your unspoken crushes becomes a popstar? That would only be... "Wicked Awesome."

As the daughter of a former member of an internationally famous pop vocal quintet, the rumored ex of pop's thirteen-year-old phenom, and the best friend of the bad boy in an up-and-coming boyband, Persephone Smith certainly has a front row seat to the music industry. But fame won't save her from seventh grade horrors like dissections, sleepovers, power tools, hazing, kissing couples, and gym class. And what if her dad's boyband reunites for a new album and tour? Could she really leave life in Vermont behind for two months for a VIP journey around the world? It's a dilemma that even her natural powers can't answer.

Join eleven-year-old Persephone and her family, friends, enemies, and fans as she takes on the pop music industry, community theatre, mud puddles, Leap Day engagements, and numerous other situations that lead up to an unforgettable, "wicked awesome" summer.

"Wicked Awesome" is the third book in a coming-of-age, realistic, paranormal, fantasy series by author Lauren Courcelle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781078712255
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/14/2019
Series:	Persephone Smith , #3
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.77(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lauren Courcelle has lived in Vermont all of her life, but if she admitted how long that is, she'd be revealing her age, so don't expect her to confess it! As a child, she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up (because she liked to write on the chalkboard), but as a teacher, she realized that being able to have a daily impact on students, particularly when inspiring them to become lifelong lovers of literature, was the best part of the job. She left the field for a few years to try her hand at phlebotomy, and although she rarely missed veins, she certainly missed her students and yearned to share great children's books with them once again. Her aspirations were bigger than merely reading to young people; she wanted to write for them, too, so in May 2011, she pursued her dream of writing a picture book. Nearly 400 pages later, a chapter book, surprisingly, emerged from her efforts. That book was Wicked Normal. With it, Lauren immediately knew that protagonist Persephone Smith's story would be told via a twelve-book series. Having heard that traditional publishers frowned on authors marking their debut with a series, she opted to self-publish her first novel. She released the second book, Wicked Weird, less than six months later. The third, Wicked Awesome, was published within a year of the first. The fourth book of the series, Wicked Dramatic, marked Persephone's last year of middle school and the series' final "Middle Grades" novel, appropriate for precocious, younger readers (Ages 9+). When Lauren, herself, was in seventh grade, she stopped reading because the library ran out of books she wanted to read. Her librarian recommended a YA selection, but its content was too mature for her liking, so she returned it and didn't check anything else out. Consequently, the first four books of her debut series were crafted with her seventh grade self in mind - oodles of pages, lots of humor, tons of fun, the influence of Karmic magic, an abundance of innocence, colorful covers, and, of course, the occasional unicorn - without sugarcoating what it's truly like to be that age. Once readers are ready for YA (Ages 13+), Wicked Confessions, Wicked Together, Wicked Alpha, and Wicked Omega will be waiting with the tale of Persephone's high school years. From there, the final five books journey to college and beyond. Lauren continues to reside in Vermont and enjoys going to concerts, knitting scarves, making beaded jewelry, painting, and spending time with her family.