How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild and Got A Life

Anglický jazyk

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild and Got A Life

Vydavateľstvo: Time Warner
Rok vydania: 2006
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 075153742X

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O knihe

When Opal Mehta was six years old her parents moved from India to New Jersey so that they could get their child a place at the finest learning institution in the world: Harvard University. To achieve this goal, the Mehtas carefully and thoroughly constructed HOWGIH (How Opal Will Get Into Harvard). Opal`s life so far has strictly adhered to this plan - cello lessons at age 6, foreign languages at 7, mechanical engineering classes, horticulture and mosaic art classes after that. Now, armed with a sterling set of academic and extra-curricular credentials, Opal has applied to Harvard. Failure is not an option.

But the first question the admissions officer asks her is `What do you like to do for fun?` She is stumped. Studying and hard work are all she`s ever known. Boys hold no appeal (well, perhaps Sean Whalen, but he thinks she`s a nerd.) But when she tells her parents, they simply take it all in their stride. `There is no problem too big for us Mehtas,` declares her father. And so HOWGAL - How Opal Will Get A Life - springs into action, with hilarious results …