The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
Atheneum Books for Young Readers · Paperback · February 19, 2013
Rose petal milk shakes and a world of surprises awaits Dini when her family moves to India in this spirited novel with Bollywood flair.
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- Who it’s for
- A list-friendly, immersive read with growing-up stakes and a domestic edge.
- Genres
- Friendship, Film Stories, Immigration & Moving
- Published
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, February 19, 2013
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Rose petal milk shakes and a world of surprises awaits Dini when her family moves to India in this spirited novel with Bollywood flair. Eleven-year old Dini loves movies—watching them, reading about them, trying to write her own—especially those oh-so-fabulous Bollywood movies where you don’t need to know the language to get what’s going on. But when her mother reveals some big news, it does not at all jibe with the script Dini had in mind. Her family is moving to India.
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And not even to Bombay, which is the “center of the filmi universe” (and home to Dini’s all-time most favorite star, Dolly Singh). No, they’re moving to a teeny, tiny town that she can’t even find on a map: Swapnagiri. It means Dream Mountain, a sleepy little place where nothing interesting can happen.... But wait a movie minute! Swapnagiri is full of surprises like rose petal milk shakes, mischievous monkeys, a girl who chirps like a bird, and...could it be…Dolly herself?
Quietly Complicated
A list-friendly, immersive read with growing-up stakes and a domestic edge.
Come here for
- coming-of-age energy
- family tension
Expect
- Asian American lens
- YA family dynamics
Where it sits
| Immigration & Moving | 57% |
|---|---|
| Film Stories | 33% |
| Friendship | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Stories Set in the Middle East
- Film Stories
- Friendship
- Authors
- Uma Krishnaswami, Abigail Halpin
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Published
- February 19, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Stories Set in the Middle East