After getting a job at a vintage clothing shop and quickly bonding with two older girls, fifteen-year-old Veronica finds herself making bad decisions in order to keep their friendship.
On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
One of Cloe's paintings, inspired by her friends, is going to be exhibited in a gallery, but her credit card is over the limit and she cannot buy a fabulous dress for the opening unless she can get--and keep--a job.
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Discusses how to make oneself invaluable in the workplace by connecting people, satisfying customers, solving problems, and finding artistic, inventive ways to stand out and succeed professionally.