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I Am Not Jessica Chen

by Ann Liang
Katharine Chin
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Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard.
And Jenna Chen will only ever be a disappointment.
So when Jenna makes a desperate wish to become her cousin, the last thing she expects is for it to come true—literally. All of a sudden she gets to live the life she's always dreamed of . . . but being the model student at cutthroat Havenwood Private Academy isn't quite what she'd imagined. Worse, people seem to be forgetting that someone named Jenna Chen ever existed. But isn't it worth trading it all away—her artistic talent, her childhood home, even the hope of golden boy Aaron Cai loving her back—to be Jessica Chen?
* Kids' Indie Next Pick *

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    January 28, 2025

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781488230554
      • File size: 280086 KB
      • Duration: 09:43:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      May 1, 2025

      Gr 9 Up-"I've always had this theory that if I want something badly enough, the universe will make sure to keep it just out of my reach," Chin longingly narrates, becoming 17-year-old Jenna. On the evening she's rejected from Harvard while her perennially perfect cousin Jessica gets in, Jenna implores a shooting star, "I wish I was Jessica Chen." Jenna goes to bed weighted again by her immigrant parents' disappointment but shockingly wakes the next morning, on the outside, as Jessica Chen. Beyond the sudden privileges-wealth, beauty, peer adoration-experiencing the reality under Jessica's flawless fa�ade might be the only way to save Jenna's own life. Chin provides a slow-burning, emotive performance, albeit lacking a broader range of primary characterizations; Jenna seems forever resigned, Jessica merely higher-pitched and unconvincingly innocent. VERDICT Regardless of format, Liang's raw expos� of family dysfunction, performative posturing, and unyielding pressures will ring too true for many contemporary teens.

      Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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