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|summary=Being the daughter ofa of a celebrity isn't quite as much fun as it might sound: a well-written look at the perils of being fourteen - and famous.

Girls usually get together because they've got something in common and for Lizzie, Carina and Hudson it's their famous parents. Lizzie's mother is a supermodel and even in her thirties , she's still one of the most beautiful women in the world. Lizzie's – not. Well, she's not exactly ugly but compared to her mother (and she always is) she just doesn't come up to scratch. Carina's dad is a rich (''very'' rich) businessman and he's determined that C (as she's known) is going to join the company and eventually take over. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants to make music and you might think that having a pop diva for a mother is a good start, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.

The girls are all at school in New York and it's school that brings Lizzie together with a boy she knew many years ago. Todd and his father have just returned from the UK and in the meantime , he's turned into something rather special. It's not just that he looks good but he seems considerate and kind too, but is he, well, a bit fickle in his friendships? Lizzie's got other things on her mind though: when she makes a stupid mistake which goes viral a photographer spots that she might not be traditionally beautiful, but she's definitely got something the camera loves.

My daughter wants to read this book, I think because she also fell in love with the shoes on the cover! However , she is only 8½ and the book has a rating of 11+.

Can you tell me what makes it unsuitable for a mature almost 9 -year -old?

It's a litle little while since I read the book, but I don't remember any overt sexual references and I did pass the book on to my granddaughter who would have been about a year older than your daughter. She didn't make any remark about it so I suspect that quite a few of the plot lines plotlines about relationships went over her head.