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Gr 6-9 Jazz, 15, and her best friend (and secret love), Steve, own a successful small business in Berkeley, taking photos of tourists in hippie costumes. When her mother wins a grant to spend the summer in India to establish a clinic at the orphanage from which she was adopted as a child, Jazz is reluctant to go but understands that the family must stick together. The girls she meets in Pune help her see herself with new eyes: more than a solidly built shot-putter, she is a beautiful young woman who might be worthy of S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Spending the summer in India with her family, fifteen-year-old Berkeley resident Jasmine finds the monsoon season—when people's "personalities change, and they do things they normally never would do"—working its magic on her. Half-white, half-Indian, Jazz sees herself (unfavorably) as "Amazon woman," the complete opposite of her petite, do-gooder mom, but in India Jazz starts helping others, and her ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More