Project sweet life

Project Sweet Life by Brent Hartinger

Summer holidays are here. Yipee!! Days and days of sleeping in, hanging with friends, hours of doing not much of anything. Right. That's what the three main characters of Project sweet life thought too. That is until their fathers come up with the idea that all three should have summer jobs!! Yes you heard right - work, jobs, schedules, minimum wage, uuuuugggghhhh.

Dave, Curtis and Victor decide there is a way around the dreaded summer job - and they call it Project Sweet Life - really all they have to do is make roughly $7500.00 and they're off the hook. But project sweet life does require lying to everyone around them about their susposed summer jobs and then how to make the money. Their first project sees the trio selling all the cool stuff they've collected over the years in a massive garage sale just to see the cash flying out of thier hands as fast as it came into them. On to the next idea...

I thought this was an original, fun read. And if your avoiding getting a summer job, well, this book might give you a couple of good ideas.

From the back cover:
"Here's the nasty little secret about summer jobs, something the adults don't tell you: Once you take that first summer job, once you start working, you're then expected to keep working. For the rest of your life! Once you start, you can't stop, ever- not until you retire or you die.
Sure, I knew I'd have to take a job next summer. But now, I had two uninterrupted months of absolute freedom ahead of me - two summer months of living life completely on my own terms. I knew they were probably my last two months of freedom for the next fifty years."

For the slackers.
Read on.