Dara Palmer's Major Drama (paperback) Emma Shevah

Nuns and noodles were just the beginning. 

Dara Palmer longs for stardom - but when she isn't cast in her middle school's production of The Sound of Music, she gets suspicious. It can't be because she's not the best. She was born to be a famous movie star. It must be because she's adopted from Cambodia and doesn't look like a typical fraulein. (That's German for girl.) 

So irrepressible Dara comes up with a genius plan to shake up the school: write a play about her own life. Then she'll have to be the star.

November 2023