The Pursuit of Happiness

by Tara Altebrando

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Dressing up as an eighteenth century farm girl is not how Betsy Odell imagined spending the summer before her senior year of high school, but her history professor father insists she take a job at Morrisville Historic Village. To make matters worse, Liza Murphy, only the biggest freak from school - piercings, tattoos, bleached hair - works as a farm girl too. As far as Betsy can tell, her summer will be miserable and any chance of ever being popular is doomed. When tragedy strikes Betsy close to home, her boyfriend and 'friends' are nowhere to be found, and her job becomes a welcome escape from the real world. James, a Morrisville employee from the next town over, is probably the greatest - not to mention cutest - guy Betsy has ever met, and Liza is surprisingly normal and fun. Caught between two worlds - old and new - Betsy is soon struggling with two versions of herself. Combining backdrops of historic Morrisville with the normal teenage world of beach parties, learning to drive, and broken hearts, Tara Altebrando writes a hilarious and fun novel of one girl's search for love and happiness…and the unlikely places she finds them.
  • ISBN10 1416513280
  • ISBN13 9781416513285
  • Publish Date 18 September 2006 (first published 7 March 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 17 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint MTV Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English