Indie Girl (Paperback)

by Kavita Daswani (Author)
Key Phrases: Aaralyn Taylor, Celebrity Style, Trixie Van Alden (more...)

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Product Description
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD INDIE KONKIPUDDI HAS ALWAYS DREAMED OF BECOMING A FASHION REPORTER. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine -- even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Indie's neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend her weekends picking Play-Doh off of someone else's Persian carpets, and pretty soon she starts asking herself the same thing.

Then Indie finds out that (1) Celebrity Style is in trouble, and (2) Hollywood's hottest star is having her wedding dress made in a village in India. Indie's sure she's scored the juiciest gossip in town -- the kind of story that will put the magazine back on the map and finally land her the internship! But when things don't pan out exactly as planned, Indie wonders -- will Aaralyn ever see her as anything more than just the hired help?

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse (October 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416948929
• ISBN-13: 978-1416948926
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #648,965 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy & fun read!, March 2, 2009

By	dreamgirl "YM" (Boston) - See all my reviews

Its an easy and fun read as well as pretty engrossing too. The author has portrayed the characters pretty well. I myself am an Indian girl, now living in America, so I could relate with a lot of the things.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A lovely, fun, but thoughtful story., April 1, 2008

By	Alexandra Henshel - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I very much enjoyed Indie Girl, and found the simple story of a girl who wanted to win a summer apprenticeship to a "West Coast Anna Wintour" had a surprising depth. Indira soon finds that Aarylin, her glamourous magazine editor boss, is only using her, and she must find the strength to deal with the loss of a hero, and the realization that hard work and talent don't always lead to success- that sometimes, life is unfair. Indie was a delightful heroine.