Girl Overboard ***

Girl Overboard by Justina Chen Headley is the story of Syrah Cheng, billionaire Ethan Cheng’s daughter. She has everything a girl could want, from one of a kind designer clothes to a Mercedes sitting in the garage awaiting her sixteenth birthday, and she doesn’t want any of it. The one thing she wants is to fly down a mountain on her snowboard with her best friend, Age, but she can’t do that. Just a few months before Syrah tore her ACL while riding in the back country alone where she was buried by an avalanche. It was a miracle that she was found when it was said that she had about a ten percent chance of surviving. Although she has gone through extensive surgery and physical therapy, and her doctor told her that she is healthy enough to snowboard, her parents won’t allow it. On top of that, Age has gotten back together with his old girlfriend, who doesn’t allow him to talk to Syrah. Unable to snowboard and ignored by her family, including her half siblings who are old enough to be her parents, Syrah is a prisoner in a mansion. It isn’t until she finds Amanda, a three- year -old with cancer who also loves to snowboard, that she decides to help. For her entire life people have only heard her last name and tried to get close to her to get to her father; however,when Syrah is about to make a name for herself separate from her father, she is in the world of snowboarding and beyond.

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