Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the
wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring
dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school,
sharing frappés and complaining about the other kids. But there's one
big difference: all three are daughters of maids and nannies. And they
go to school with the very same kids whose families their mothers work
for.
That difference grows even bigger--and more painful--when Jaya's mother
is accused of theft and Jaya's small, fragile world collapses.
When tensions about immigrants start to erupt, fracturing this perfect,
serene suburb, all three girls are tested, as outsiders--and as friends.
Each of them must learn to find a place for themselves in a town that
barely notices they exist.
Marina Budhos gives us a heartbreaking and eye-opening story of
friendship, belonging, and finding the way home.