Girl Overboard!: A Rose Among the Thorns: Girl Overboard, #1
By Sheri Tan
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Dear Diary,
Life in New York was looking great. Summer vacation was around the corner, and I'd FINALLY turned 13! Then Mom announced we'd be moving halfway around the world to Singapore, where she grew up.
Now it feels like my life is SO over. I don't know anyone here, my family's totally weird and everything seems to go wrong at my new international school. How do I express myself when we have to wear UNIFORMS? How do I avoid the mean girls and keep cool around my crush? One thing's for sure—I'm gonna figure this out!
Things aren't easy for Rosie Smith. Peek into her diary for tales about her spider-obsessed little brother, EMBARRASSING episodes at school and making friends—and enemies—in her new home, Singapore. Narrated with honesty and charm, and peppered with humorous illustrations, Girl Overboard! is a fresh new series whose heroine you'll find yourself rooting for.
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Girl Overboard!: A Rose Among the Thorns: Girl Overboard, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGirl Overboard!: Everything’s Coming Up Rosie: Girl Overboard, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGirl Overboard!: A Rose Grows in the Jungle: Girl Overboard, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
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Girl Overboard! - Sheri Tan
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First Day Jitters
Dear Diary,
How do I star t…Today is…no, wait. I just got to Singapore…No, I have arrived in a foreign land…and it’s over!! My life is over! Yes, that’s it, I feel like my life is so over, like I have been thrown into the deep sea with no life jacket…I have no life, no friends, no room…Well, I do have a new room…but it’s not my old room. This room doesn’t count…It’s not my real room. I miss my real one back home in New York.
Lying in bed, Rosie Smith writes in the diary that Grandma gave her on her first day in Singapore.
I had a life back in New York. Now I don’t have one. Dad’s been great, trying to make sure that my pesky eight-year-old brother Alex and I are okay. I love my dad! He’s super smart and he’s an ar tist, but right now he works for a real estate company to pay the bills. He has dark brown hair, which is thinning at the top. He says it makes him look smar ter—haha. Mom wants him to go completely bald and give up trying to comb over whatever’s left. LOL!!
Mom can be funny, but she can also be so demanding! Rose, do this, Rose, do that! Okay, I have to explain that Mom stopped calling me Rosie when I turned 12 ’cause she thinks Rose is more grown-up sounding, and she thinks I should get used to being called and calling myself Rose. When you start working, you don’t want to be signing off as Rosie Smith, right, Rose? Rose Smith sounds so much better!
I have no idea about my future working life. All I know is that I like the name Rosie and that I’m always wrong with Mom. She says she’s got all the answers! Whatever.
Can you believe that the only reason why we are here, why I had to give up my life in New York, is because of Grandma? See, Mom was born here. But she went to college in California, and then ended up finding a job in New York City, where she met my dad. (They met on a subway platform!) My dad, Alex and I were all born in New York City—at the same hospital, in fact (uh, at different times of course!). I really didn’t want to move here at all but Mom said we have to look after Grandma. Although Uncle Amos is here and he’s Grandma’s favourite anyway?
So why are we here? I was fine with just visiting Singapore during our summer vacations—the way we had always done it—but Dad says moving here is good for us because life is better here, whatever that means. How can life be better when I don’t have any friends here? When the weather is the same every day? When kids don’t seem to have time for anything but school, homework, tuition, piano lessons, swimming lessons, enrichment classes and on and on?
Alex loves it here because of the zoo…and the aquarium. All he talks about is animals and dinosaurs. He can be so annoying, especially when he touches my stuff!
Grandma is sweet and nice and is always giving me stuff, odd things like a shirt that is