This second book in the “Lucy B. Parker” series continues the story of a dramatic sixth-grader who has been dealt the ultimate challenge:  she’s about to become step-sisters with Hollywood’s hottest teen star, Lauren Moses!  Insecure Lucy writes letters to TV advice celebrity Dr. Maude, as she struggles to adjust to the fact that her mother ignores her now that she has a new man in her life, and Lauren is living a golden life with TV movie offers and living in the limelight.

The book is hilarious.  Lucy is fixated on the premise that everyone is supposed to have 3 crushes:  one local, one celebrity crush, and one long distance/vacation crush.  Not knowing how you tell when you have a crush, Lucy says, “I felt a weird tingly feeling in my spine when I heard him talk.  I wondered if I was getting spinal meningitis, which is this weird disease that I had seen on a program on the Discovery Channel once.”

On the down side of the book, I wonder if this book will become dated quickly, as it uses very up-to-date lingo (BFF, iTouch, iPad, and a reference to Family Guy).  As an adult reading this book, I tired of Lucy’s obsession of getting her period, her bra size, and the way she constantly talked in the format “…because (a) blah blah blah, and (b) blah blah blah, and (c) blah blah blah.”  I felt all of these were overdone, but may be enjoyed by a pre-teen.