"Carly Wheeler is used to having the kind of life other kids envy. She's a popular seventh grader at the prestigious Preston Day School. Her mom is a stylist for the hot soap opera Lovelock Falls, and Faux Pa (what Carly calls her stepfather) loves her just as much as he loves his own kids. But the day her mother is arrested for embezzling funds from her job, Carly's life becomes crazier than a plotline on the show. Suddenly, instead of trips to the set, she's accompanying her mom to the lawyer's office and the courtroom. Newspapers chronicle the whole mess so everybody knows, and Carly's closet friends start avoiding her in school. Her parents can barely look at each other. Worst of all, Carly is no longer sure how she feels about her mother."--dust jacket.