The Gold Threaded Dress
Carolyn Marsden
Mass Market Paperback
(Scholastic Books, Aug. 16, 2002)
In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia. Everything else is different too. The other girls leave her out of their games, and a boy named Franke teases her. Then Liliandra, a popular girl in the class, sees a photo of Oy in her Thai dancing dress, and offers to let Oy into her club if she brings the dress to school. Oy knows that would be a betrayal of her family's traditions, but she wants so much to belong. At home. fingering the pink silk of her dress, Oy makes her decision.
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