description: Taylor is feeling left behind. Living alone with her depressed mother, she has to take charge of all the household chores and grocery shopping, while her friends are starting to get interested in clothes, make-up, and boys. So when she meets Kat - a pretty, popular, older girl - she is desperate to be her friend. And it's such fun to go shopping together - Kat knows all the best places to buy clothes. But before long Kat is encouraging Taylor to dip into the housekeeping money so she can buy new things, and soon Taylor finds herself in a terrible situation... BLA direct, emotional style which will engage readers from the first page BLShopping theme will attract girl readers, for whom shopping is the number one leisure activity BLDeals memorably with problems of loneliness during adolescence
language: English
title: Shopaholic
titlecomplete: Shopaholic
genres: Teen, Young Adult, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 206
publisher: Oxford Univ Pr