Drop Sadness in Paris - The New European School Novel (Boys Read Secretly - Girls Read Silently)

Author: Ulrich Hudec
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: A 13-year-old girl named Youyou takes a solo flight to Paris for vacation, but accidentally boards the wrong flight. Instead of Paris with the Eiffel Tower, she ends up in the small town of Paris in Texas, USA. Youyou is now in a dilemma. In her predicament, her seatmate Bekenschu and "Coca-Cola Man" Lucas extend a helping hand. They introduce her to first spend her vacation at the Paris Ranch in Texas, and then return to Germany after two weeks. During those two weeks, Youyou gradually forgets the pain of her breakup in Paris and falls in love with the free and easy rural life. She even begins to fall in love with Lucas! However, the vacation is coming to an end, and she doesn't have enough money to buy a plane ticket to go back. At a critical moment, her mother arrives with her younger sister from Germany.