Scarlett Martin might want to complain about a few things, but you have to admit, she's got it pretty good. First, she lives in New York City. Second, she lives in a hotel! Third, her older sister lets her borrow a Dior dress on more than one occasion.
Wittily written by Maureen Johnson, Suite Scarlett starts with Scarlett's fifteenth birthday. Like everyone in the Martin family, on her fifteenth birthday, Scarlett gains a new privilege (fancy word for chore). She is given a room in the family hotel to look after. It turns out Scarlett's life is, if you look at it one way, not quite as fabulous as it sounds on paper.
It's summer and all her friends are off doing exciting things, while she's stuck working at her parent's hotel, which is barely keeping the family afloat. But then her hotel room receives a guest who changes everything. A woman named Amy suddenly has Scarlett chasing all over the city running errands for her, and she has a not-so-secret past as something... theater-related. And then there's Spencer, Scarlett's older brother who's trying to pursue his dream of acting, and who just happens to have a really cute coworker....
There's a lot more in store for Scarlett this summer, and for readers who get sucked into this book (like I was, this Saturday). It looks like this is the beginning of a series for the busy Maureen Johnson.
Read if you like: theater stories, snorting (laughing) at how witty Maureen Johnson is, John Green, Hamlet, anything set in NYC
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