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| The Au Pairs | 
 enlarge | Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 422643
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0689873190
EAN: 9780689873195
ASIN: 0689873190
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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Three girls with three agendas and the ultimate destination: the Hamptons. Summer in the city? Way overrated. Everybody who's anybody in New York City summers in the Hamptons. Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui all want a piece of the action, all for different reasons. So the girls answer a classified ad to become au pairs. How bad can it be, watching a couple of kids on the beach all day? They've got the swank address, the sweet ride, and an all-access pass to the hottest social scene on the East Coast. It's shaping up to be the summer of their lives.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 True beach read. December 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Three girls with three completely different backgrounds become au pairs and travel to the Hamptons for a summer of work and play. By day, they are nannies to the Perry children but by night, they party and hang with the rich and famous. Sounds like a good plot right? I thought so until I read the first few pages. The plot is quite similar to the "Sunset Island" series and "The Nannies" series but it doesn't have much innocence. Instead, it is about the latest fashion trends, drinking, partying, boys, and sex. Not to mention the stereotypical characters. This is a true beach read but if you want some advice, once you're done throw the book into the ocean.
 Just as good as the listed books!!!!! November 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The au pairs" was a good book that I read after the "Gossip Girls" and the "A-list" series. It amazing how the author takes three very different and diverse girls and put them under the same roof working for the same person. It's a friendship waiting to happen even though at first they had their differences: how Jacqui and Eliza love to party and Mara is more of a home body. This book is filled with laughter, love, parties, friendship. The way the book is laid out it makes you want to continue reading it. Melissa de la Cruz did an amazing job on writing this book so I read the other ones in the series and they were just as good as the first so I can't wait to see what else she has in store for us.
Luv ya much
~ Breanna Grimes (Grandville, Michigan)
fabulous beach read August 13, 2006
For a chance at $10, 000 and the best parties of the summer, three girls, Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui, sign up to be au pairs at a wealthy family's house. Mara is there to escape her small-town life. Eliza is there in hopes to reclaim her It Girl status she lost with her father's bankruptcy. Jacqui is there to find a guy she loved and lost. Once there, though, none of their plans go as followed, and they leave changed, for the better. This book was very realistic, and I liked it a lot. It has slightly more substance than many other beach reads, and overall is a great novel.
Excellent July 21, 2006
This book is a great read that goes by fast. I had a really hard time putting it down. The character differences are great and it made me want to continue. I found it to be fast paced and I was hooked from the get go. No I am not a young adult, but I do enjoy quick light reading and that's exactly what it was. I give it five stars with a smile.
shallow and trite June 11, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I didn't expect a lot out of this book (I mean, look at the cover), so I guess it really didn't disappoint. I just found it annoying. Basically, everyone in the book is "cool" because they wear the "right" clothes, know the "right" people, smoke and do drugs and seem to have limitless access to alcohol regardless of how underage they are. Even though the author tries to separate the three nannies from the rest of the frivolity, they don't prove to be much different. They all have shallow relationships yet seem to be shocked when things go awry (hello! like we can't tell that a relationship based on nothing more than looks and accessibity isn't meant to last, despite the fact that they're all only 16!).
And these girls are NOT nannies. The author paints a rediculous portrait of au pairs in which they do nothing, are hardly ever around and yet the kids always fall in line. The nannies refer to the kids as monsters and brats, but the kids are practically angelic when you consider that they never get in any trouble even though that have almost no supervision. Reality check, please.
If all you're looking for is a light, fluffy read with no wit or depth and no redeemable qualities, perhaps this is the book you're searching for. Cruz doesn't even portray the cliched snobbishness in a clever way; the writing and plot are completely expected and droll. But if you want to read about relationships as told by someone who can actually write well, check out Sarah Dessen or Deb Caletti. This book is as bad, if not worse, than the gossip girl series. Not worth the time of anyone even slightly intellectual.
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