Daswani, Kavita

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.

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.

Fifteen-year-old Indie has always dreamed of having a career as a fashion reporter, so when she gets a job working as a nanny for one of the industry's hottest editors, she hopes it will be her big break, but when Indie scores the juiciest gossip in town and helps save the magazine, she is devastated when she gets no recognition and begins to wonder if the fashion world is too cut-throat for her.