Paski's dad gets a chance to take his comic book character on to the big screen so the two of them have to move to Southern California. The school is nasty but nothing like as nasty as I remember from my high school days. Paski is an interesting character especially as she has psychic powers, however, the book suffers from a drive to come to an overly happy ending. ( )

351/351 pages;
This book is about a teenage girl, with psychic powers, who moves from New Mexico to SoCal. Her dad is a comic book artist, and he is the reason why they moved. She goes to a new highschool, has big issues with the popular kids, meets a new guy named Chris Cabrara, gets into motorcross, and out of the big messes she gets in, she finds hope and happiness at the end. The main character is Paski, and she has psychic powers. She is very athletic, sometimes afraid to take chances, but a real good person. When she moves, she kind of stays too negative about the idea, and sometimes doesnt really enjoy the life of a Los Angeles citizen. A situation I can relate to is fitting in with a different crowd-getting new clothes (designer names for Paski, American Eagle for my case) and not being able to do that. The only thing i didn't like about this book was how fantasy was somewhat mixed in it (psychic powers). Of corse, I don't believe in that kind of stuff and not really into it, but I think in this case it was okay and kind of made the book more interesting. The kind of readers I think will enjoy this will be the chick flick kind of teens, and also those who enjoy reading about fantasy. I do not know who exactly would play the role of the main character, but I think it would have to be a teenage girl who is athletic, shy but with a wild side, and Hispanic. ( )

When Paski's Dad's comic book character gets picked up by a movie studio to be turned into a movie, she has to move with him to Southern California. Orange County, to be precise. The leader of the popular rich girls at her new school sets out to make her life miserable when Paski catches the eye of the leader's boyfriend. ( )

Paski loves her house and her friends in Taos, New Mexico. But her dad just got his big break and they move to Orange County, California. The school Paski goes to is full of rich kids, and the popular ones are known as the "Haters" for their cruelty to others.

Paski gets in trouble with the haters immediately. She needs to trust herself and the visions she sometimes gets to tell her what to do. ( )

Pasquala (or Paski, as she prefers) is from Taos, New Mexico. Her mom took off for a life of Harleys and drugs long ago, and her cartoonist dad raises her. Now sixteen, her dad makes a movie deal for his famous Squeegee man cartoon, and moves Paski to Orange County. Paski tries to figure out how to simultaneously fit in and be herself in the new environment overrun with commercialism, superficiality, and vanity. She wants to be normal, but at the same time wants to show the world how she's special: she is amazing at doing tricks on her bike, and also has visions of the future that always come true. Paski's journey takes place the first few weeks of her California life, and cover topics like her father's budding romance with the neighbor, making friends with goth girls, mean girls and the newspaper staff alike, and Paski's first sexual experience. There are a lot of pop culture references, like Gwen Stefani, Mapquest, Old Navy and Starbucks, that give the book authenticity but also seem a little too frequent, and also make me wonder how relevant this book will be in two years. This book is a good choice for a mature high school reader wanting to read something different from other YA fiction. ( )