Skinny-Dipping

by Melissa de la Cruz

Book Overview

Your favourite bikini-clad au pairs - good-girl-turned-It-Girl Mara, spoiled Eliza and Brazilian bombshell Jacqui - are back for another season of skinny-dipping in Georgica Pond, tanning on Main Beach, and oh yeah, baby-sitting for the Perry kids too.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416903828
• ISBN13: 9781416903826
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

i love this book and im not a reader

I read the first and had to buy this one. Its easy reading and she describes everything really good. It definately is juicier! I would love to move to the Hamptons to see what she is talking about and/or even be an au pair. She is a great author i just pretty much bought all her books. im 22 and enjoy reading this on the beach and when im home too!!!!

Sequel to The Au Pairs

Well, I was a big fan of the first book, The Au Pairs. This book does indeed develop deeper into Mara and Jaqui's character. Eliza, the ex-It girl, has rented a little cottage for the summer. Her family is doing better and instead of working as an au-pair for the Perry Family, she worked at an upcoming hot club called Seventh Circle. Mara is now the It-girl since dating Ryan Perry. Jaqui is focused on her job because she wants to stay in New York the year and finish school up there and hopefully go to NYU. Her plan worked, up until she met the new au pair, the hot French Phillepe. Read the book to find out more. This book is so totally awesome!!!!

An interesting and enjoyable continuation to The Au Pairs

SKINNY-DIPPING brings poor Mara, rich then poor Eliza, and Brazilian Jacqui back to the Hamptons for another summer of adventures. Fans of last year's THE AU PAIRS have been waiting for the hinted-at sequel where Mara, Eliza and Jacqui were supposed to go on a tropical winter break with the Perry family. For some reason, that idea was abandoned, and there is only brief mention of Eliza and Jacqui's winter with the Perrys, where Eliza and Ryan Perry were up to no good while Mara was away. That's just the beginning of the changes for this summer. Eliza gets a job with a hot club instead of working with the Perry children, and a new au pair, Philippe, moves into the quarters with Mara and Jacqui. Philippe is as handsome as he is mysterious, and Jacqui tries to overcome an attraction to him. Mara is still recovering from breaking up with Ryan by partying too much and dating Mr. Shallow and Wrong. She loves all the attention her uber-it self is getting from photographers and designers, but Eliza and Jacqui are growing tired of her. Eliza never sees Jeremy while he is busy at his finance job, and ends up spending too much time with Ryan again. Her job is hard work --- catering to spoiled Hamptonites is not the glamorous status return she was hoping for. Readers will enjoy the references to the latest designer duds and party trends, but the Hamptons is a small place and it will be interesting to see in future books what changes await these girls after they are college-bound and on breaks. --- Reviewed by Amy Alessio

awesome book!!

i was a huge fan of the first au pairs book, and this one is better, i think. it delves deeper into mara's and eliza's characters and really lets you know where they're coming from and why they do the things they do. i wont give anything away, but if you liked the first one, you'll adore this one. hope this helps!!