{"id":8383,"date":"2013-04-25T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:27:34","slug":"the-book-trailer-for-the-academy-by-monica-seles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monicaselessite.com\/the-book-trailer-for-the-academy-by-monica-seles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Trailer For &#8216;The Academy&#8217; By Monica Seles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the world&#8217;s most elite academy for athletic teens, the competition on the playing field is fierce\u2026and the competition off it is even fiercer. That&#8217;s the story behind the much-anticipated new YA novel &#8220;The Academy: Game On&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe first book in the new series by Monica Seles (the international tennis superstar who&#8217;s also an alumna of a hardcore sports training school, so you know she knows what she&#8217;s talking about!). And today, we&#8217;ve got an EXCLUSIVE first look at the trailer, which promises all the juicy scandal of a great boarding-school drama plus the added twist of a young tennis star&#8217;s Cinderella story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/110061735?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The premise: Maya, a gifted young tennis star, gets the chance of a lifetime when her skills score her a scholarship to the world&#8217;s most competitive school for aspiring athletes. But when she arrives, she discovers that her ability to wield a racket is the least of her worries; the school is a hotbed of conflicts that center on everything from wealth to romance, and it&#8217;s ruled over by a mean queen bee whose parents bought her way in. Will Maya be able to steer clear of the drama and focus exclusively on her goal of becoming a pro player? \u2026Uh, we hope not! That sounds so boring! Bring on the frenemy backstabbing and secret dorm sex!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Academy: Game On&#8221; will hit bookstores June 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the world&#8217;s most elite academy for athletic teens, the competition on the playing field is fierce\u2026and the competition off it is even fiercer. 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