The Daughters Break the Rules (Daughters Series)

Daughters Rule Number Six: Never talk to the press about your parents.

After leaking a story about the family business, impetuous high school freshman Carina Jurgensen is cut off by her billionaire father. Always resourceful, she fibs her way into a job as a party planner for New York's annual Silver Snowflake Ball. But when Carina finds out that the party committee expects favors and freebies from her dad's A-list connections, a choice must be made: Does she get real about her downgraded status, or pretend she's still the ultimate heiress?

Best friends and fellow daughters of celebrities Lizzie Summers, Carina Jurgensen and Hudson Jones are back in Joanna Philbin's second stylish and heartfelt Daughters novel.

Daughters Rule Number Six: Never talk to the press about your parents.

After leaking a story about the family business, impetuous high school freshman Carina Jurgensen is cut off by her billionaire father. Always resourceful, she fibs her way into a job as a party planner for New York's annual Silver Snowflake Ball. But when Carina finds out that the party committee expects favors and freebies from her dad's A-list connections, a choice must be made: Does she get real about her downgraded status, or pretend she's still the ultimate heiress?

Best friends and fellow daughters of celebrities Lizzie Summers, Carina Jurgensen and Hudson Jones are back in Joanna Philbin's second stylish and heartfelt Daughters novel.

Children's Literature

Carina Jurgansen has everything, but that changes when her billionaire father stops footing the bill. Now Carina must learn to survive (survive meaning find a way to pay for a skiing trip to Europe in order to impress a boy) on her own. When a classmate approaches her about planning the annual Snowflake Ball, Carina jumps on the opportunity to make some cash despite her inexperience in party planning. Soon it becomes clear that she is in over her head. She can either ask her father for help or tell the truth. This is the second novel in "The Daughters," a series about daughters of the rich and famous. On the surface, this is a good book, especially in the Gossip Girl-type genre, where brand names seem like secondary characters. Carina is spunky and independent, trying not to admit that she is spoiled. She and her friends are likable, and the mistakes she makes are similar to the mistakes all girls make, especially where boys are concerned. However, there is nothing below the superficiality. Carina's struggles aren't the kinds that garner her pity, like not being able to buy a designer dress for the dance or having to pack a lunch instead of buying the ten-dollar burger. The only rules broken are the social rules about where to shop and what to wear. This novel makes for great beach reading, but nothing more. Reviewer: Heather Robertson Mason

Joanna Philbin is the daughter of "Live with Regis and Kelly" host, Regis Philbin. She received her BA from Brown University, and later went on to receive an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Nortre Dame. She wrote feature and television scripts before becoming a full-time novelist. Joanna is currently working on the second title in the series, due out November 2010.