Con Academy

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236 pages

English language

Published March 28, 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-0-544-32020-8
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2 stars (1 review)

For teen readers of Curtis Sittenfeld, Ally Carter, and James Patterson, Joe Schreiber's entertaining and over-the-top novel introduces us to Will Shea: con-artist. But Will isn't the only scammer at one of the most elite and privileged prep schools in the country--Andrea Dufresne is there, too, and Connaughton Academy isn't big enough for the both of them. So they make a deal--and the stakes are higher than high school. May the best con win!

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2 stars

This book had the potential to be really great but it wasn't. For all that Will claimed to be this great con man, he got conned a lot in this story and at the end he basically just gives up and decides to go straight. For what? Because Gatsby liked him?. This was billed as an Ocean's Eleven YA, but this may be the only version of Ocean's Eleven that's not only boring but has very little heisting going on. This was just disappointing and could have been much better.

Subjects

  • Schools
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Conduct of life
  • Preparatory schools
  • Fiction