Chloe in India

Reviewed by: Joanne Libby - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 25, 2015

Review

Chloe is an 11-year old girl whose family has just moved to New Delhi, India from Boston.She and her sister Anna attend a private school, but Chloe is having trouble making friends and fitting in. Then she meets Lakshmi who is also new at the school, but who lives in the slums. Chloe and Lakshmi are friends outside of school, but not in school where Chloe wants to befriend Anvi, the most popular girl in her class. This goes along for a while until Lakshmi and Chloe win a dance competition and Lakshmi overhears Chloe tell Anvi that she really is not friends with Lakshmi. Drama ensues as happens in relationships of 5th graders but it all ends well for Chloe. This book would appeal to girls in 4th through 6th grades. It would be interesting to those who like realistic fiction set in a foreign country. There is a glossary of Indian words at the back, but many more Indian terms were in the book which were not defined. I found this confusing as I have no knowledge of the Indian language and was too lazy to look the words up on the computer.

Overall Book Score: very good