The story: When Gigi's sister wins a million dollars in a cooking contest, two trailer park girls from South Carolina make their move to Long Island - to a prep school for Gigi (who now wants to be called Leia) and a super beauty salon job for DiDi. Along the way, Leia finds new friends, a couple of snooty new enemies, and finds most of all that changing your name doesn't change who you are deep inside...although sometimes it takes a bit of help to figure out just who that is! A wild midnight train ride leads Leia to the truth about her long-lost--and presumed dead--Mama, about her over-protective sister, and about how you can really tell who's really your friend (and exactly who might be boyfriend material!).
June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG; Violence G; Sexual content G; Nudity G; substance abuse PG-13; magic & the occult G; GLBT content PG; adult themes (being orphaned, bullying) PG; overall rating PG.
Liz's comments: Here's a sweet story (complete with recipes!) about a girl trying to figure out just who she is amidst a whole lot of upheaval in her life. Leia (aka GiGi) is a smart, spunky narrator with a tendency toward stubbornness that gives her a realistic voice. Although life at her new school isn't perfect, it isn't completely awful, either, and her gradual finding of new friends and redefining her relationship with DiDi are done just right for a 7th grade girl trying to find her way.
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