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Palatini, Margie

Isabella for Real

198 pp. | Houghton | October, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-14846-8 $16.99
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Eleven-year-old Isabella pretends to be the daughter of a contessa (based on her actress aunt's soap-opera character) to impress girls at her fancy new school. When YouTube videos of her real, working-class Italian American family go viral, she fears being outed. Silly subplots and overblown characters nearly derail an otherwise amusing story--supplemented with Pham's comic-strip inserts--about identity, truthfulness, and media frenzy.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

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