Haters

Name: Haters
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781594838019

Author: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Narrator: Flora Diaz

Abridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Published: 10/04/2006

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

When Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta (Paski)'s cartoonist father returns to Taos from a business trip wearing designer sunglasses and a velour Juicy men's track suit, she knows her life is taking a turn for the worse. Paski and her father move to Southern California, where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie.

At her new high school, money is everything and the haters rule - especially beautiful and cruel Jessica Nguyen. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by disturbing visions. Her psychic grandmother warned her that ignoring her gift of premonitory visions would lead to trouble. Can Paski ever find a home in the land of the glamorous haters?

About Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a novelist, is the author of the national bestseller The Dirty Girls Social Club, Make Him Look Good, and Playing with Boys. She was named Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and Time magazine has called her one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in America. Holder of a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, Alisa was one of the youngest staff writers ever hired at the Boston Globe, and she has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times.

Alisa is a popular public speaker on American college campuses. Her personal and occasionally controversial blog, "Queen Sucia," has been highlighted in Vanity Fair as among the top writer's blogs on the Intrnet. She is the founder of the Chica Lit Club Fiesta, an annual literary conference. Alisa is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ~☆~Autumn•.¸¸.•*´¨`* •.¸¸.•*´¨`*•.¸

I enjoyed this far more than I expected to and so I have to get more of her books. I think most anyone who likes YA would enjoy it.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com HATERS is the first young adult book by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, but anyone who reads this book (myself included) is sure to hope it's not her last! In the novel, readers are introduced to Paski (her full name is Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, b......more

Goodreads review by Laura

The author's first foray into young adult fiction is a mostly strong one. Pasquala aka Paski is moved from her life in Taos by her soon-to-be-famous cartoonist father to Orange County. In addition to not being able to fit in with the uber-rich crowd, Paski is psychic, and can forsee a terrible thing......more

Goodreads review by Lara

I'm so pleased that Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has ventured into the YA genre, because it seems to suit her well (although I really enjoyed her two adult books, too). (For clarification, I don't mean "Adult" with a capital A, as in XXXX "Adult". I just mean "adult", as in "written for an adult audience"......more

Goodreads review by Cameron

What would you do if your dad came home from work one day in designer sunglasses and a Juicy men's track suit, and told you that you were moving all the way up to Southern California? At first, you would ask, what is my father wearing? But the more important question is why? It may not seem like a......more