num_pages: 329
description: A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows.
language: English
title: The Basic Eight
titlecomplete: The Basic Eight
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Humor, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Adult, Novels
ratings_count: 7010
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books