‘The pace of the book is just right and as a reader you want to keep turning the pages and find out whether Dara will reach her dream’
Dara is a 12-year-old, Cambodian girl with a big dream: she wants to become an actress. When her school announces auditions for The Sound of Music, she is over the moon and believes that she should get the lead role of “Maria”. Even though she does her very best, she doesn’t get the part and she thinks that she didn’t get it because of the way she looks. When Dara was a baby she was adopted by the Palmer family in England. However, this is not the reason her teacher, Miss Snelling, doesn’t chose her for the lead role. Dara over-acts as she thinks that acting is all about making faces. Initially she feels that she’s too good for drama school but she’s clever enough to realise that she needs coaching, or she’ll never get an acting role.
I really empathise with Dara because I know what it means to want something really bad. Her high opinion of her acting skills is really funny as she can only do extreme facial expressions (Disney Channel type). However she’s also very funny when she comes down to earth with a bump. For example, this is how she feels when she’s not cast for any of the major roles:
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