If you could see the sun /

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by Liang, Ann
[ 02. English Fiction ] Published by : Inkyard Press, (Toronto, Ont. :) Physical details: 341 p. ; 22 cm. Subject(s): Chinese Americans | International schools | High schools | Extortion | Invisibility Year : 2022 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction
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Queen Charlotte Intermediate School F LIA Checked out 03/21/2024

"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she's the only scholarship student in a sea of über-wealthy classmates. But she has a plan: be top of the class, attend a prestigious university, secure a killer job, and finally lift her family out of poverty. Then her parents drop a bombthey can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. But that's the least of Alice's problems she has started uncontrollably turning invisible. Alice realizes there's an upside to her strange new powerunparalleled access to the secrets of China's most rich and influential teens. Soon, Alice has a new plan: offer her invisibility services to find out what her classmates want to knowfor a price. But between balancing schoolwork, a growing relationship with academic-rival-turned-business-partner Henry, and stealing secrets, things start to fall through the cracks. As the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if helping her family is worht losing her conscienceof even her life.