Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
year: 2012, 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: moving, household, juvenile fiction, east indians, california, arranged marriage, families, fiction, los angeles (calif.), juvenile fiction, fiction, family life, love
Editions
Daswani, Kavita
HarperTeen (2012)
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
Schools: 4
Daswani, Kavita
Scholastic (2013)
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
Schools: 0