Parachutes
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Kelly Yang
Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma. They’re called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she’d be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California.Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger’s house, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. She soon embraces her newfound freedom, especially when the hottest and most eligible parachute, Jay, asks her out.Dani De La Cruz, Claire’s new host sister, couldn’t be less thrilled that her mom rented out a room to Claire. An academic and debate team star, Dani is determined to earn her way into Yale, even if it means competing with privileged kids who are buying their way to the top. But Dani’s game plan veers unexpectedly off course when her debate coach starts working with her privately.As they steer their own distinct paths, Dani and Claire keep crashing into one another, setting a course that will change their lives forever.
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Author
Kelly Yang
Pages
496
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2020-05-26
ISBN
0062941135 9780062941138
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"I finished this book in one sitting and thoroughly enjoyed it. At first I was concerned since our main characters were already married with kids but we spend a great deal of the story witnessing the initial relationship grow between them as young adults. That was absolutely my favorite part of the story. I can’t imagine why this is a 3 book storyline but I trust TA to do her thing. It would have been helpful to have more timeline headings so it’s not as confusing. Towards the end of the story, there are more jumps between timelines but not all of them are labeled. There’s even a few ‘present day’ scenes but also an *unlabeled* scene that sounds like it was atleast 1 or 2 years past the present day scenes. It doesn’t hinder the story too much to but it would be nice if that was clear."
"The best young adult book I have read!"
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Estelle Burugu
"brilliant book i couldn’t put it down!!! really opened my perspectives and gave me a look in the struggles of asian Americans."
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isabel cordova