num_pages: 352
description: I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo Japan! Happy birthday!In the Land of the Rising Sun where high culture meets high kitsch and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future the foreign-born teen elite attend ICSthe International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble they seek diplomatic immunity.Enter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner who on her sixteenth birthday discovers that her long-lost father Kenji Takahara is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um yes please! Elle jets off first class from Washington DC to Tokyo which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father her way-too-fab aunt and her hyper-critical grandmother who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats a troop of uber-cool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family her already tenuous living situation just might implode.My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life is about learning what it is to be a family and finding the inner strength to be yourself even in the most extreme circumstances.
language: English
title: My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
publisher: Disney-Hyperion