Brilliant (16 page)

RACHEL VAIL
is the author of the Friendship Ring series; the Avery sisters trilogy, which includes the critically acclaimed
LUCKY
and
GORGEOUS
; and the novels
IF WE KISS; DO-OVER; EVER AFTER; YOU, MAYBE; DARING TO BE ABIGAIL
; and
WONDER
. Rachel is also the author of the picture books
RIGHTY AND LEFTY
:
A Tale of Two Feet
and
SOMETIMES I’M BOMBALOO
. Rachel lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

You can visit Rachel online at www.rachelvail.com

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The Profound Asymmetry of Love in High School

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BRILLIANT
. Copyright © 2010 by Rachel Vail. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.

Vail, Rachel.

Brilliant / Rachel Vail.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother’s major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn’s and her younger sisters’ world upside-down.

ISBN 978-0-06-089049-0 (trade bdg.)—ISBN 978-0-06-089050-6 (lib. bdg.)

[1. Conduct of life—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction. 4. Sisters—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.V1916Bri 2010         2009039672

[Fic]—dc22         CIP

FIRST EDITION

EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199584-2

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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