Mallory Milbourne's Guide to Handling Rejection
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Mallory Milbourne has dreamed of attending Princeton University since she attended Michael Lewis' baccalaureate speech in 2012. However, her dream is cut short one fateful night in March when she receives the most heartbreak-worthy email an 18-year-old girl could ever receive: she has been rejected from Princeton. As she tries to choose between her back-up schools and navigate the rest of her senior year, she finds a new goal to distract herself from her embarrassment: getting Roger Fletcher to ask her to prom. But isn't there more to life than getting what you want all the time?
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