num_pages: 339
description: Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is Ethan Cheng, billionaire, and she has everything any kid could possibly desire: a waterfront mansion, jet plane, and custom-designed snowboards. But most of what glitters in her life is fool's gold. Her half-siblings hate her, her best friend's girlfriend is ruining their friendship, and her own so-called boyfriend is only after her for her father's name. When her broken heart results in a snowboarding accident that exiles her from the mountains-the one place where she feels free and accepted for who she is, not what she has-can Syrah rehab both her busted-up knee, and her broken heart?  Justina Chen Headley writes with an engaging wit and a powerful, distinct voice. Her first novel, "Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) was a Border's Original Voices nominee, a Book Sense pick, and received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly: "Headley makes an impressive debut with this witty, intimate novel."
language: English
title: Girl Overboard
titlecomplete: Girl Overboard
characters: Adrian "Age" Rodriguez, Syrah Cheng, Grace Cheng, Lillian Fujimori, Bau-mo
genres: Family, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Sports, Young Adult, Mental Health, Chick Lit, Romance
ratings_count: 2063
places: Whistler Mountain, Seattle, Washington, Vancouver, British Columbia
publisher: Little, Brown and Company