Blue jasmine - Kashmira Sheth

When 12-year-old Seema Trivedi learns that she and her family must move from their small village in India to Iowa City in the USA, she realises she will say goodbye to the only home she's ever known and, most importantly, to her beloved family who she'll have to leave behind. Yet the adventure of moving to America unfolds before her like the bloom of a new flower. In time, will she begin to plant roots in the foreign soil that feels so strange? |A realistic emigration story told with empathy and sincerity.| - Kirkus Review