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Plot Summary of The Used to Be It Girl
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Dorchester Smooch, Oct 2004
ISBN: 0843954736

For several seasons, Rhiannon Melissa Taylor was the star of the popular TV kid show Wing and a Prayer; last year she seemed to be on the cover of every magazine. However, at fifteen she gained teenage weight and recently was fired because because of the loss of her cuteness her TV producer call her “Little Girl Lard”. A humiliated Rhee returns to her family home in Queens.

Rhee must still elude the paparazzi, who enjoy snapping pictures of her. She struggles with adjusting to being a former cover girl princess and wonders if she is one of those child stars who never made it to adult status.

Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Used to Be It Girl
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Life of a profession: - actor
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - fatness/blubber
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - quite fatty

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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