Now Cabot presents another teen-pleasing novel and another likable heroine in this story set in Washington, D.C.

　　Red-haired Samantha, a self-described “urban rebel” who has dyed all of her clothes black, is a 15-year-old middle child. Her older sister Lucy is the most popular girl in school. Her little sister Rebecca is a brainy* 11-year-old girl and is regarded as a genius*! So Samantha is uncomfortably wedged* between her popular sisters.

　　And she has a major crush* on Jack, Lucy’s boyfriend, whom she feels is far better suited to her than to her rather vacuous* sister.

　　Samantha’s life suddenly changes dramatically* when, while standing on the sidewalk one afternoon, she foils* an attempt to assassinate* the president. She becomes a national hero overnight, is named teen ambassador* to the United Nations and eventually lands the president’s son as her boyfriend, who happens to be a fellow student in her art class.

　　The entertainingly opinionated* narrator’s top-10 lists, such as the “top 10 reasons why I can’t stand my sister Lucy” and the “top 10 signs that Jack loves me and not my sister Lucy and just hasn’t realized it yet,”add to the tale’s charm.