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Overview
Meet Amber, Jazz, and Geena Dhillon—a.k.a. the Bindi Babes. They’re three fabulous sisters with a reputation for being the coolest, best-dressed girls at their school. But their classmates don’t know that the Dhillon sisters work extra hard to look perfect and together to all of their friends . . . while privately trying not to think how much they miss their mom, who died a year ago. What these struggling sisters certainly don’t need is an interfering auntie from India inviting herself into their household to cramp their style. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what their dad allows to happen.
Soon the sisters’ pushover dad is saying no to designer clothes and expensive sneakers, and Auntie is butting into every area of their lives. What are the Bindi babes to do? There’s only one way to be rid of Auntie: marry her off to some unsuspecting guy. Will Amber, Jazz, and Geena find a man who can put up with Auntie before she completely ruins their lives? Or are Auntie’s new rules doomed to make the fabulous Dhillon sisters just . . . average?
Three Indian-British sisters team up to marry off their traditional, nosy aunt and get her out of the house.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
"Dhami's comedic sense of timing and endearing cast of characters will have readers alternately giggling and commiserating with the three sisters of the title," said PW's starred review. Ages 8-12. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.Children's Literature
Geena, Amber and Jazz are three beautiful sisters who excel in school, are fawned over by their teachers and yet somehow manage to be the coolest, most popular girls in the neighborhood. In short, their lives seem enviable. At least this is the image they work very hard to project, but they have all been wounded by the death of their mother; wounded so deeply, they cannot mention it and work to avoid any offer of sympathy. The approach to this story of the three girls is lighthearted and funny and the author has done a wonderful job of showing their underlying emotions while maintaining the tone, which is not an easy task. The Dhillon sisters have been taking advantage of their father who spoils them, buying them expensive clothes, shoes, and just about anything they ask for. Their lives change when their father's sister, the dreaded Auntie, arrives from India to care for them. They plot to get her out of their house, but she outwits them at every turn. There are many subplots, involving school plans and the girls' friends, but all is resolved and the three sisters come to terms with the loss they have suffered and learn a lot about human nature in this well-rounded story. 2003, Delacorte/Random House, Ages 8 to 12.—Carolyn Mott Ford