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\"Absolutely<\/a>Seventeen-year-old Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, aka “Maybe,” escapes the clutches of her slimy stepfather-to-be, for whom her ex-beauty queen alcoholic mother insists she’ll walk down the aisle a seventh time. Maybe decides it’s high time to go find her real father, the one man her mother didn’t marry.<\/p>\n

With her best friend Ted, a Thai American adoptee with the best parents ever, the pair hitch a ride cross-country with a third friend, aptly named Hollywood, who’s bound for \u2013 where else?\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0film school in Los Angeles. Away from smalltown Florida,\u00a0Maybe finally seems to fit right in with her Kool-Aid hair and oversized black t-shirts. Ted finds the job of his dreams, Hollywood’s making his first real movie, while finding Daddy turns out to be much harder than Maybe ever imagined.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: New & Notable Books,” The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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