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A Not-So-Simple Life: Maya: Book 1

A Not-So-Simple Life: Maya: Book 1

Carlson, Melody

Paperback

Series: Diary of a Teenage Girl, Book 13

Young Adult Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1601421176
ISBN13: 9781601421173
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: Jul 15 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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?

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