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REINVENTION OF MOXIE ROOSEVElt Moxie Roosevelt Kipper has endured thirteen years of being an ordinary girl with an unordinary name. Now that she’s going to boarding school, she’s determined to reinvent herself. But who will she be? Mysterious Earth Goddess? Hale and Hearty Sports Enthusiast? Detached, Unique, Cooly Knowing Individual? Moxie tries them all, with hilarious and near disastrous results. The Story:" I see it like one of those reality shows where a team rushes in and rips a bunch of stuff out of your house and completely redesigns it with new stuff in a Unified Look. Except on my reality show it's me getting the makeover, inside and out." It seems like such a great idea – after all, it’s boarding school. Nobody knows Moxie, and she can be anybody she wants. Moxie tries on a variety of personalities for size, while keeping her true talent a secret. As she struggles to navigate new friendships and near disasters, she learns that she's not the only one in boarding school who isn't what she claims to be. The inspiration: I went to a boarding school called Emma Willard, in Troy, New York, and I loved every minute of it. Pictures from various years there show me in everything from a pink Lacoste shirt with flipped up collar; faded denim jacket and Pocahontas braids, and (briefly) a dog collar necklace and skeleton earrings. I’ve wanted to set a book in a beautiful old school like EWS for years – and when I finally got the chance, more than a little bit of the real me showed up in the plot.
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