| A Not-So-Simple Life: Maya: Book 1 Contributor(s): Carlson, Melody (Author) |
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ISBN: 1601421176 ISBN-13: 9781601421173 Publisher: Christian/Forum OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2008 Annotation: This first installment of a new series introduces 16-year-old Maya Stark, a biracial Beverly Hills teen whose father is a rock star and mother is facing drug charges. Maya is sent to spend a summer with her cousin Kim, but jaded Maya looks down on Kim because she's a Christian. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance - Young Adult Fiction | Religious - Christian - Relationships |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008008033 |
| Series: Diary of a Teenage Girl: Maya |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.28" W x 8" (0.51 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Topical - Teen - Sex & Gender - Girl's Interest - Theometrics - Evangelical - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 135342 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fifteen-year-old Maya Stark seems to have it all-fame, fortune, a Beverly Hills lifestyle, and an eighties pop star dad who's making a comeback. But looks can be deceiving, and on the inside, Maya is miserable. Her parents are divorced, her dad is away on tour, and being biracial, she struggles with her identity. Then, to make matters worse, her mother has returned to using drugs and is quickly depleting their finances. In a plan to become emancipated from her messed-up mom, Maya takes a job on Rodeo Drive. Selling designer clothes compromises Maya's earth-friendly "green girl" values, but she is desperate. Just when Maya thinks she's got it all worked out, her life caves in. Her mom "embezzles" Maya's savings and is later arrested on DUI and cocaine possession charges and is facing jail time. With nowhere to live, Maya is sent to spend the summer with her relatives. In the collision of two very different worlds, Maya must figure out where she fits in-or does she fit in at all? |