Meet the Fivers

Kay Cassidy is the author of teen fiction she wishes was based on her real life. Her debut YA novel, THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY (April 2010, Egmont USA), takes readers behind the scenes of a secret society of good populars dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. She is the host of the inspirational Living Your Five™ web project and the founder of the national Great Scavenger Hunt Contest™ reading program for kids and teens.

Kay’s Five

1.   Embrace gratitude and pay it forward

2.   Choose kindness and harmony

3.   Make family and friends a priority (“Change the world, start at home” as HGTV says)

4.   Seek out inspiring stories and share them with others

5.   Live a greener life

– Learn more about how Kay is living her Five by visiting her blog.

Tera Lynn Childs is a wannabe goddess and the award winning author of Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp and the upcoming mermaid tail, Forgive My Fins. Tera lives nowhere in particular, but has spent time fleeing hurricanes, blogging with the Buzz Girls and the Fivers, and writing wherever she can find a comfy chair and a steady stream of caffeinated beverages.

Tera’s Five

1.   Go green

2.   Push the positive

3.   Wipe out waste

4.   Make the little things count

5.   Commit to writing mentorship

– Learn more about how Tera is living her Five by visiting her blog.

Alyson Noel is the New York Times bestselling author of the Immortals series. She was born and raised in The OC (although she never actually called it that until the TV show), and attended the Richard Nixon Elementary School for two years—a fact she finds both amusing and embarrassing.

After high school, she was desperate to flee suburbia and see the world, so after many trips to Europe she eventually settled in Mykonos, Greece for several years, before moving to Manhattan for several more, where she worked as a Flight Attendant for a major airline and wrote her debut novel, Faking 19, during long weather delays and boring layovers.

Then one day she was visiting a friend in Newport Beach and she met her husband. It wasn’t long before she’d come full circle, setting up house right back in The OC where she lives and writes full time.

Alyson’s Five

1.   Commit to frequent acts of kindness and gratitude

2.   Commit to random acts of charity

3.   For new item purchased, donate something similar to a person, place, or organization that needs it

4.   Commit to living greener and helping lessen and/or offset my environmental footprint

5.   Commit to positivity, to keeping all communications a no snarking/no ranting zone, and happily post about what’s going right in the world

– Learn more about how Alyson is living her Five by visiting her blog.

"Girl power, baby! This is the book you want when you want to believe you can do anything!"

~ Becca Fitzpatrick
New York Times
bestselling author
Hush, Hush

"The Cinderella Society is just as much about empowering yourself as it is about the fun and romance, and the super secret society will appeal to fans of Ally Carter."

~ Tirzah, age 17
The Compulsive Reader

“The Cinderella Society is girl power in a great new package! Kay shows a real girl on a real path to finding out who she is who just happens to have a great support team there to help her when she falls! The Cinderella Society is a must read for teen girls! It deals with real issues that we’ve all had and are still facing in regards to how we fit into the world.”

~ Stacey Canova
Bookseller
Page Turners

"Empowering, flirty, and fun... The Cinderella Society was a blast to read!"

~ Jessica, age 14
Chick Lit Teens

“I loved watching Jess transform – to start to see what was inside of her and how to let that out. The conflict, the fantastic characters, the overall fun this book was to read… chick lit isn’t usually my thing, but this is so much more.”

~ Kristen H.
Children’s librarian
Bookworming in the 21st Century

"The Cinderella Society sent out such a positive message for girls and was a book showing girls CAN do anything. This is a must read!"

~ Erica, age 16
The Book Cellar