Thirteen-year-old Khadija, a Somali refugee, becomes a model for a famous fashion designer to help her family back home, while the designer's daughter Freya and fourteen-year-old Abdi, whose family Khadija lives with in London, try to protect her.
Style columnist and television personality Jeanne Beker offers a behind-the-scenes look at the modeling world, describing what it is really like to be a famous model and why it is not all fun, glitz, and glamour.
In the role of a twelve-year-old girl whose boring day at the mall turns exciting, the reader determines the outcome of the story by taking personality quizzes interspersed throughout the text.