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The story revolves around 18-year-old Lexi Garcia, a senior in high school whose mundane little life is about to take a much more glamorous turn. Of course, she has no idea what's about to happen. Her main concerns are avoiding the Cliquistas (the snooty popular girls who can't get enough of teasing her about her shabby neighborhood and secondhand clothes), figuring out a way to ask Trevor Wilson to the Sadie Hawkins dance (without looking like a complete fool), and studying hard enough to earn a college scholarship (the paltry sum her mother earns as a hotel housekeeper is baely enough to buy a pencil, let alone pay for tuition). Lexi's never had it easy - she's a penniless, fatherless, half white half Latina girl living in a small West Virginia town, after all - but she's also smart, scrappy and close to her mother and abuela. Oh yeah, and she bears an uncanny resemblance to Kari Kingsley, the hottest rock star around.