Chapter 1

All That Glitters Comes via UPS

There it was. In the middle of the Connors's living room. The Box. It had been shipped overnight from Los Angeles. Kat had to look at it twice before the reality sank in. It was her name all right: Ms. Katherine Connors, 5473 Jasmine Court, Carmel, Indiana. Her name looked funny there on the box, even though she'd seen it a million times before on papers, report cards, and the Christmas cards that she and her BFF Jules always sent to each other.

But this box was special.

This box was going to make her the first Glitter Girl in all of Indiana.

Maybe no one had heard of Glitter Girl yet, but that was about to change, and Kat was how that was going to happen.

Glitter Girl was a new line of products for teens and tweens. Kat hated that word, "tween." Who invented it? she wondered. This company in California (Remoulet Worldwide, Inc., according to Kat's googling on the matter) was going to start selling these products next month. But before that, Remoulet Worldwide, Inc. wanted to get everybody excited about it.

That's where Kat Connors came in. And that's why the box ended up in the middle of her living room. Inside that box was simply every Glitter Girl product that any girl could ever want. Kat's hand reached closer to the box; she could only imagine what treasures were waiting inside.

"No, Kat," she told herself, pulling her hand back. "You promised Mom you wouldn't touch the box until the sleepover tonight when Jules and everyone else is here."

Kat told herself that, but it's hard to listen to yourself sometimes, especially with all that stuff sitting right in front of you. Lip gloss! In who knows how many different shades! And every cool other thing in the history of coolness! And they were giving it all to Kat. For free!

As her hand still hovered over the box, Kat thought about how and why this package came to her in the first place. And how she knew, just knew, that this box would change her life. Forever. Obviously, this was no ordinary box. Which made sense. Because Kat Connors was no ordinary girl. She was an Alpha Girl.

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Excerpted from Glitter Girl by Toni Runkle, Stephen Webb
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