Section 1: pages 1-22 Summary

"Suite Scarlett" by Maureen Johnson is an entertaining novel about Scarlett Martin, a fifteen-year-old girl whose family owns a hotel in New York City. After Scarlett receives the duty of caring for the Empire Suite on her fifteenth birthday, her summer is thrown into chaos when Mrs. Amberson, an eccentric actress, decides to move into the Hopewell for the summer and becomes involved in the production of "Hamlet" that Spencer, Scarlett's older brother, is acting in. "Suite Scarlett" is an entertaining account of the ways a teenage girl's life changes and the things she learns about herself in one out-of-control summer as she does the best she can to protect her family.

In Act I, the Hopewell is a family-run hotel on the Upper East Side which has been in business for over 75 years. The bastion of the Jazz...