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Fourteen-year-old Lily B. thinks a class trip to Paris will be the inspiration for her "Great Parisian Novel." Instead, she finds herself staying in a nondescript youth hostel, eating hot dogs and cold cereal, and getting lost on the Metro. Kimmel gently pokes fun at her protagonist's pretentiousness, revealing Lily's reluctant enjoyment of her experiences as a "simple tourist." Glos.