Autumn Cornwell's Carpe Diem
Cornwell's novel about a typical high-school overachiever whose parents are blackmailed into sending her away to Southeast Asia for the summer with her free-spirited artist grandmother is a very funny, cute, and engaging one. As Vassar (named for the college her mother hopes she'll attend) embarks on her adventures, she meets an Asian cowboy, bonds with the grandmother she's never met, and attempts to solve the big family secret (which I accidentally saw while putting my bookmark into a back page, so it was pretty easy to catch all the hints and I think a general reader could figure it out relatively quickly). A-.
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