The Education of Hailey Kendrick - Eileen Cook [0]
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people,
or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents
are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events
or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2011 by Eileen Cook
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cook, Eileen.
The education of Hailey Kendrick / by Eileen Cook. —
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Dating a popular boy and adhering to every rule ever written,
a high school senior at an elite Vermont boarding school begins to shed
her good-girl identity after an angry incident with her distant father.
ISBN 978-1-4424-1325-2
[1. Self-perception—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.
3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C76955Ed 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2010025608
ISBN 978-1-4424-1330-6 (eBook)
TO MOM AND DAD,
WHO TAUGHT ME
TO LOVE BOOKS
Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
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Acknowledgments
About The Author
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There was a matter of life and death to deal with, and instead we were wasting our time discussing Mandy Gallaway’s crotch. I kept a neutral smile plastered on my face, but my foot bobbed up and down impatiently. More people have seen Mandy Gallaway’s naked crotch than saw last year’s Super Bowl. The girl’s incapable of getting out of a car without flashing the sixty zillion paparazzi that follow her around. The concept of knees together and underwear on isn’t that complicated, which leaves me to believe she likes the sensation of flashbulbs lighting up where the sun isn’t supposed to shine.
Given that her crotch had been photographed more than most supermodels, I failed to see why one online leaked picture of her standing in her gym shorts and a sports bra was causing this much drama. The situation certainly didn’t call for the public flogging and stoning the student body was advocating. All the crowd was missing were some pitchforks and torches, and we could have stormed the town. On the upside, at least people had shown up for our student government meeting, for a change.
The Evesham student body usually had more important things to care about, like planning their next vacation to a private island near the Bahamas, or deciding between another Coach or Louis Vuitton bag. Most of the time the only people who came to our meetings were those of us on the board.
It wasn’t clear what had really happened, but the theory was that a female security guard had snapped the photo of the half-dressed Mandy in the locker room and had sold it to the tabloids. A few people had seen a guard doing her rounds of the gym, and she’d had her cell phone out. Given who attends Evesham, paparazzi is a common problem, but before this incident they’d tended to hang outside the school gates. No one had ever had a picture leaked from inside. This was officially big news on campus.
“We