"Unlike me, life isn't always pretty," says Tiffany Spratt-a cheerleader destined for fame who will do anythingto get there
Tiffany is definitelyglad that the best-looking boy in the universe just transferred to her high school. Her boyfriend, Wally, got caught hacking into the Pentagon's computer system and was sent to boarding school, so she almost didn't have a date for the Homecoming dance! But Tiffany knows that she'll look fabulousnext to her new boyfriend, Cannibal MacLaine-at least she thinkshe said his name was Cannibal. Sure, it's an incredibly unusual name, but then, he isfrom Los Angeles.

Then something even more exciting happens: A major Hollywood director wants to film a horror movie right in their school!Not everyone is as pleased as Tiffany though-in fact, her own mother is leading protests against the plan-but Tiffany is Head Yell Leader at Hi High, so she gets the chamber of commerce on her side. The movie studio signs the contract, and everything is going to be perfect... if it doesn't turn into a perfect nightmare first.

Cynthia D. Grant has published twelve young adult fiction novels since 1980. In 1991 she won the first PEN/Norma Klein Award, for "an emerging voice among American writers of children's fiction." Over the years, Grant has received numerous other distinctions. Unfortunately, her Massachusetts upbringing prohibits her from showing off. She lives in the mountains outside Cloverdale, California, and has one husband, Eric Neel; two sons, Morgan Heatley-Grant and Forest Neel-Grant; two cats, Kelsey, an orange tom, and Billie, a barn cat-barracuda mix; and Mike the Wonder Dog, who packs two-hundred-plus pounds of personality into a seven-pound body.