The Fixer

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Lexile = 620















One of my current binge shows on Netflix is:

Scandal is all about a "fixer" ... the person you turn to when you need a situation fixed. Like you found a body, but you are an important person (a senator?) that can't be involved in a scandal. You call the Fixer and they take care of it and make it all go away. Well, The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is like a young adult version of this great TV show! Here's the plot:

Tess is living with her Grandfather in Montana, but he is slowly deteriorating due to Alzheimer's Disease. Tess's big sister, who has been largely absent from Tess's life since their parents died, swoops in to rescue them both and moves them BOTH back east and into her life. Ivy Kendrick is a well-known and successful Fixer in Washington DC. Ivy's notoriety does ease the transition for Tess into her new elitist school, but students at the school think that Tess can do for them what Ivy does when she fixes things up for their parents.

I think this is a bit unbelievable, but maybe the First Lady does visit high schools in DC and ask students for favors.... uh.... likely not. I happened to take this book on a trip to DC last week, so I read it while in the city of its setting. Kinda fun. Good book. There is also a sequel.

Watch a student made trailer HERE.