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After enduring an intolerable life with her alcoholic mother, a former beauty queen, Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut, nearly seventeen, leaves for California. There she starts working on a taco truck, pockets her dream of finding her missing birth father, and navigates the challenges of youth, family, and identity in the city of angels.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Lisa Yee
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