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Never Sit Down In A Hoopskirt, June 2011
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NEVER SIT DOWN IN A HOOPSKIRT
By: Crickett Rumley

And Other Things I Learned In Southern Belle Hell

June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Featuring: Jane Fontaine Ventouras
304 pages
ISBN: 1606841319
EAN: 9781606841310
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Expelled from thirteen boarding schools in the past five years, seventeen-year-old Jane Fontaine Ventouras is returning to her Southern roots, and the small town of Bienville, Alabama, where ladies always wear pearls, nothing says hospitality like sweet tea and pimento cheese sandwiches, and competing in the annual Magnolia Maid Pageant is every girl’s dream.

But Jane is what you might call an anti-belle—more fishnets and tattoos than sugar and spice. The last thing on her mind is joining the Magnolia Maid brigade and parading around town in a dress so big she can’t even fit through doors. So when she finds herself up to her ears in ruffles and etiquette lessons, she’s got one mission: Escape.

What’s a hipster to do? Will Jane survive Bienville boot camp intact or will they—gasp!—make a Southern belle out of her yet?