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Parachutes
Kelly Yang
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0062941084
Keywords: sexual harassment; sexual assault; rape culture; immigrants; Chinese students (?); social class; school power dynamics, dual points of view
Scholarship student Dani hosts wealthy Claire from Shanghai when she enrolls in Dani's private school in California. Initial antipathy gives way to alliance as they each face their own traumas.