Fifteen-year-old Maya Stark seems to have it all fame, fortune, a Beverly Hills lifestyle, and an eighties pop star dad who s making a comeback. But looks can be deceiving, and on the inside, Maya is miserable. Her parents are divorced, her dad is away on tour, and being biracial, she struggles with her identity. Then, to make matters worse, her mother has returned to using drugs and is quickly depleting their finances. In a plan to become emancipated from her messed-up mom, Maya takes a job on Rodeo Drive. Selling designer clothes compromises Maya s earth-friendly green girl values, but she...

For the first time that she can remember, Maya Stark is beginning to feel like a normal teenager. Even with her mother in jail for drug possession and her pop-star father away on his comeback tour, Maya s new life with her uncle Allen and cousin Kim is coming together. Summer vacation s just beginning, and with a new job, a new boyfriend, and a new car (hybrid, of course), things are finally starting to look up.
But that doesn t mean life is about to get any easier. Maya s still devoted to living Green, and her uncle offers her a Green column in his newspaper. With the opportunity to make...