The Grand Plan to Fix Everything

by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Abigail Halpin
2011, Atheneum

"A Grand Plan, a grand read! A modern-day fairy tale whose crazy threads tie up perfectly in the end. Truly a delight!” Linda Sue Park, Newbery Award-winning author of A Single Shard

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Eleven-year old Dini loves movies—watching them, reading about them, trying to write her own—especially Bollywood movies. But when her mother tells her some big news, it does not at all jive with the life script she has in mind. Her family is moving to India…and not even to Bombay, which is the center of the Bollywood universe and home to Dini's all-time most favorite star, Dolly. No, Dini is moving to a teeny, tiny town she can't even find on a map. Swapnagiri. It means Dream Mountain and it only looks like a word that's hard to pronounce. But to that open-minded person who sounds the name out, one letter at a time, it falls quite handily into place: S-w-a-p-n-a-g-i-r-i. An honest sort of name, with no surprise letters waiting to leap out and ambush the unwary. That doesn't mean there aren't surprises in Swapnagiri like mischievous monkeys and a girl who chirps like a bird. And the biggest surprise of all: Dolly. So now, Dini is hard at work on a new script, the script in which she gets to meet the amazing Dolly. But life is often more unpredictable than the movies and when Dini starts plotting her story, things get a little out of control. This is a joyful, lively Bollywood inspired story, full of colorful details, delicious confections and the wondrous, magical powers of coincidence. Uma Krishnaswami will have you smiling from ear to ear.

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Starred reviews: Kirkus and Publishers Weekly
Chicago Tribune review
Review at James Patterson's Readkiddoread

Interview with Jessie Grearson on Kirkus blog
Interview on KSJD Dry Land Community Radio in Cortez, CO

Review on PaperTigers blog
Review on Letter Blocks, the B&N Parents and Educators Blog

Watch the book trailer developed by Nikhil Krishnaswamy