Today I'm participating in the Blog Tour for Paper or Plastic by Vivi Barnes thanks to YA Bound Book Tours! Yesterday I posted my 4 star review of Paper or Plastic and having had the pleasure of reading Paper or Plastic I'm happy to share an excerpt from the book today as well as a giveaway :)
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Busted. Alexis Dubois just got caught shoplifting a cheap tube of lipstick at the local SmartMart. She doesn’t know what’s worse—disappointing her overbearing beauty-pageant-obsessed mother for the zillionth time…or her punishment. Because Lex is forced to spend her summer working at the store, where the only things stranger than the staff are the customers.
Now Lex is stuck in the bizarro world of big-box retail. Coupon cutters, jerk customers, and learning exactly what a “Code B” really is (ew). And for added awkwardness, her new supervisor is the totally cute—and adorably geeky—Noah Grayson. Trying to balance her out-of-control mother, her pitching position on the softball team, and her secret crush on the school geek makes for one crazy summer. But ultimately, could the worst job in the world be the best thing that ever happened to her?
From Paper or Plastic....
(In PAPER OR PLASTIC, Lex’s rocky friendship with Noah grows more solid as she gets to know him, then gradually turns into love. In my opinion, there’s nothing more thrilling than the moment you realize you’re falling for "him." This scene takes place after Noah and Lex bump into each other outside of SmartMart (in the most unlikely of places—a dress shop). They decide to escape from their families and head to a nearby café.)
"So why are you so in love with SmartMart?" I asked.
"I never said I was in love with it." He took a sip of his coffee. "I like working there because I have a better chance at getting experience that most places don’t offer to people our age."
"Yeah, but why do you care? I mean, are you planning to stay at SmartMart forever? Or do you want to be a grocery store manager when you graduate?"
His eyebrows pinched as if he thought I was making fun of him, but I wasn’t. I really wanted to know.
"No," he said finally. "I’m working to get money for college. But I was serious about the experience. It’s good that Mr. Hanson’s letting me learn management—it might come in handy someday. At the very least, it’ll look good on a résumé."
I stirred my tea. "What do you want to do? I mean, when you go to college?"
He smiled, a nice, faraway kind of smile. "Architecture. I love drawing, outlining plans for buildings. Sketching." He was silent for a moment, his gaze drifting to the small black and white pictures on the wall of various landmarks. "There’s something to be said for structural lines, the way they converge. Beautiful."
His eyes were soft as they moved over the images. For the first time, I saw him as someone more than the shy SmartMart manager who tolerated me, more than the reclusive kid at school whose gaze never lifted above the ground or the guy who’d snitched on Bryce. Noah seemed so much older than his age. As he talked about his passion for architecture, something deep inside me stirred—a complicated, twisting knot that I had a feeling was going to unfurl painfully, frustratingly slowly.
Want more? And trust me you do--be sure to snag your copy today!
(In PAPER OR PLASTIC, Lex’s rocky friendship with Noah grows more solid as she gets to know him, then gradually turns into love. In my opinion, there’s nothing more thrilling than the moment you realize you’re falling for "him." This scene takes place after Noah and Lex bump into each other outside of SmartMart (in the most unlikely of places—a dress shop). They decide to escape from their families and head to a nearby café.)
"So why are you so in love with SmartMart?" I asked.
"I never said I was in love with it." He took a sip of his coffee. "I like working there because I have a better chance at getting experience that most places don’t offer to people our age."
"Yeah, but why do you care? I mean, are you planning to stay at SmartMart forever? Or do you want to be a grocery store manager when you graduate?"
His eyebrows pinched as if he thought I was making fun of him, but I wasn’t. I really wanted to know.
"No," he said finally. "I’m working to get money for college. But I was serious about the experience. It’s good that Mr. Hanson’s letting me learn management—it might come in handy someday. At the very least, it’ll look good on a résumé."
I stirred my tea. "What do you want to do? I mean, when you go to college?"
He smiled, a nice, faraway kind of smile. "Architecture. I love drawing, outlining plans for buildings. Sketching." He was silent for a moment, his gaze drifting to the small black and white pictures on the wall of various landmarks. "There’s something to be said for structural lines, the way they converge. Beautiful."
His eyes were soft as they moved over the images. For the first time, I saw him as someone more than the shy SmartMart manager who tolerated me, more than the reclusive kid at school whose gaze never lifted above the ground or the guy who’d snitched on Bryce. Noah seemed so much older than his age. As he talked about his passion for architecture, something deep inside me stirred—a complicated, twisting knot that I had a feeling was going to unfurl painfully, frustratingly slowly.
Want more? And trust me you do--be sure to snag your copy today!
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