Out With the In Crowd

Hey everyone! Earlier this week, I said that I'd get this posted. It's a little later in the day then I'd planned on, but I'm getting it up for you all, just like I said that I would. Here you go!


Out With the In Crowd is a excellent teen book written by Stephanie Morrill.


Skylar Hoyt has turned her former partying life around. But with a pregnant younger sister that isn't doing anything and not sure whether to keep the baby or not, her mom moving out of the house and wanting her two daughters to move to Hawaii with her, her father wanting her to stay with him, and her boyfriend wanting more of her already full time, she finds that she feels like she can't win. And as her sister's due date gets closer, Skylar gets busier and more confused. Should she go to Hawaii with her mom or stay with her dad? Will Abbie keep the baby? What will happen to the new life that she is trying to live?


You'll be caught up from the first page to the last as you join Skylar as she works through problems that teens meet everyday.

Out With the In Crowd is an inspiring teen book, the second of three books in the Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series. Me, Just Different, is the first book, and the third book in the series, So Over It, comes out July of 2010.

This series is one that I would greatly recommend to any teenager, older or younger. Stephanie Morrill does a great job in writing teen books, and Out With the In Crowd is no exception.

Out With the In Crowd

Hey guys! Have you read any good books in the last week or so? I have, and the name of one of them is Out With the In Crowd, by Stephanie Morrill.

Out With the In Crowd is a excellent teen girls' book and the second book in the series The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt. Today I'm going to give you the back cover blurb and the first page, and later on this week, I'll post my review of it, so don't forget to check back here later! Here you go, enjoy!


She knew changing her life wouldn't be easy, but she never expected it to be this hard.

Skylar Hoyt may have vowed to change her partying ways, but it's not so easy to change her friends. Even thought the old Skylar is gone, she's still not sure who this new Skylar really is. Add to that two parents battling for her loyalty, a younger sister struggling with a crisis pregnancy, and a new boyfriend wishing for more of her time, and Skylar feels like she can't win. After all, how do you choose favorites among the people you love most?

And here is the first page of Out With the In Crowd:

Chapter One

All winter break, I’d planned for this moment, the one about to happen.

“Hey,” Eli said as we passed each other in the hall.

I intended to say hello back, to smile like things between us hadn’t changed, but something inside me bristled. I locked my jaw, turned away from his hypnotic smile, and picked up the pace.

Then I mentally kicked my butt as I sped toward my locker. That was not how it should’ve gone.

For starters, when I saw Eli for the first time this semester, I intended to be hanging off Connor’s arm, transfixed by him and unaware of Eli’s presence. Since Connor and I rode to school together, I assumed this would be easy to arrange. If only Connor hadn’t questioned whether he’d locked his car, then abandoned me here in the hall to run and check, things might have gone as planned.

Secondly, I should’ve been casual and cool. A simple, “Hey.” A killer smile. But really, anything would’ve been better than avoiding eye contact and rushing off. Especially because I couldn’t avoid Eli for long. We had first period together.

But deviating from the Eli plan did have its perks. It gave me something to focus on besides what possibly awaited me down the hall. When I chose my locker at the beginning of the year—seemingly a lifetime ago—it never occurred to me that my friends might no longer be my friends. That Jodi, Alexis, Lisa, Eli, and John would become the five people I wished most to avoid.

I was thrilled when I found out, several weeks ago, that I had won Out With the In Crowd at Patterings, where there is another book giveaway going on right now. Christa Allen is doing an interview and her book, Walking On Broken Glass, is being given away, and it sounds really good. You can check it out here.