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The Ivy Chronicles
The Ivy Chronicles
Author: Karen Quinn
When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds she’s been downsized from her high-powered corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she’s going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. At first she does the obvious thing: she panics. Then she decides to put her years...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743492164
ISBN-10: 0743492161
Publication Date: 5/23/2005
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Gardners Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 6
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Karen Quinn's The Ivy Chronicles is the amusing story of what happens when a New Yorker loses her job, her husband, and her ritzy Park Avenue pad and is forced to carve out a new niche for herself and her two private school-educated daughters. After transferring the girls to public school and renting a shabby-chic (at best) flat upstairs from a knicherie, Ivy Ames takes her billionaire friend Faith's advice and starts a consulting business to help privileged pre-schoolers get into the city's premier kindergartens. Light on substance yet heavy on laughs, Quinn does a reasonably successful job of following in the well-heeled footsteps of earlier gossip lit standouts such as The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada.

Very cute - light, easy read!
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Helpful Score: 4
This book sat on my shelf for quite awhile before I decided to read it. I'm now wishing that I would have picked it up a long time ago. It was so very, very good! A very well-rounded book with something for everyone.

Great characters, it was funny, it was sad, it had romance and death. It had some shocking things ... it's amazing the lengths the parents went to get their kids into a "top-tier" private school. No matter how crazy the parents Quinn made it all believable, which could be because I've heard that NYC is cut-throat when it comes to gaining admission to exclusive private schools.
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Helpful Score: 4
Fluff- but fun fluff. Great for a plane ride, rainy day or when you want to zone out and realize how ridiculous rich people in NYC can be.
knittymama avatar reviewed The Ivy Chronicles on + 424 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I really enjoyed this story. It was very funny and unexpected. It's a quick read that grabs you from page one and the laughs just keep going.
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Helpful Score: 3
This is a very amusing look at private kindergarten admissions in NYC. The characters are smartly written. This is a fun summer read!
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Love this book. It is light, amusing reading.
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This was a fun read.
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Very good book.....easy read
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very cute story, and an easy read.
StewartFan avatar reviewed The Ivy Chronicles on + 7 more book reviews
Great Read about High Society (School Admissions) Life.
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Ivy Ames loves her job, goes home early, hoping to get a hug from her husband (who has been out of work himself for 8 months) and finds him in the tub with a co-workers husband. She kicks him out and then has to re-think her entire life. The gorgeous apartment goes, the nanny goes, the dog walker goes. She gets an idea from a friend and begins to help people with getting their children - YOUNG children - into exclusive private schools. In doing so, she ends up finding herself.
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A fun one - light and a happy ending! A funny look into the nonsense of getting children into the best kindergartens of Manhattan. I also really love this reader, Julia Gibson. She's always good and easy to listen to. I'd recommend this one!


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