FRESH OFF THE BOAT: Melissa de la Cruz: HarperCollins: Young Adult: 243 pagesVincenza Arambullo, a new immigrant from the Philippines, doesn’t fit in at her exclusive all-girls school. She works after school at the cafeteria her parents run for the Sears employees at the mall and helps with the family’s bootleg reality TV exporting business at home. Her only friend at school is a French student known (unfortunately) for wearing a purple leather jacket, and the boy she has a crush on is dating one of the popular mean girls. Will she triumph over the cliques? Will she find inner peace and a boyfriend of her own? Of course! It’s that kind of book.
Melissa de la Cruz writes some pretty popular young adult fiction. Her vampire series is flying off the shelf this year. Fresh Off the Boat is a nice enough multicultural title but it doesn’t stand out from any of the other young adult books written in the last few years.
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