Monsoon Summer - Softcover

Perkins, Mitali

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440238404 ISBN 13: 9780440238409

Publisher: Laurel Leaf, 2006

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ALA Popular Paperback For Young Adults

New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year

Jasmine "Jazz" Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother's doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn't Jazz's idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother's do-gooder endeavors.

What's more, Jazz is heartsick. She's leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, started--as well as Steve himself. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. If only he knew!

Only when Jazz reluctantly befriends Danita, a girl who cooks for her family, and who faces a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a difference--to her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, even to Steve. As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and its magic.

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Monsoon Summer is a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age and a TAYSHAS Texas Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults.

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Jasmine ?Jazz? Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother?s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn?t Jazz?s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother?s do-gooder endeavors.

What?s more, Jazz is heartsick. She?s leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, started?as well as Steve himself. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. If only he knew!

Only when Jazz reluctantly befriends Danita, a girl who cooks for her family, and who faces a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a difference?to her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, even to Steve. As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and its magic.
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