Teen Machine

Ishita Agarwal . RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD. . English

Why did everything seem so demanding, all of a sudden? And why did it seem to be easy for everyone else? Those Shark people were actually <i>laughing</i> at the difficulty level of the test. <br>Was I even made for this? The 1 per cent that I was trying to fit into, how would I ever get there? I could finally feel the dread catching up. The dread that had been following me all throughout tenth grade, and I�d ignored it throughout. <br>The dreadful feeling of knowing that I wasn�t actually smart. <br>Avani, a tenth-grade student, has been living in a bubble�she gets top grades at school, loves to read and spends way too much time on her laptop, despite her mother�s disapproving glares. Her life seems perfect�until she is faced with the consequences of a life-altering decision: she decides to prepare for one of the most competitive entrance exams in the world. <br>Thrust into the cut-throat world of IIT JEE coaching in eleventh grade, she is determined to disprove her mother�s doubts about her abilities, live up to her father�s expectations of being a �smart kid� and be on a par with her peers or even better.<br>Will Avani be able to balance exam stress, her interests, new and old friendships, crushes, her parents� expectations and still be the �best�?

Categories: Fiction

About the Author

<b>Ishita Agarwal</b> has spent most of her teenage years in Chandigarh, India. A software engineer by profession, she is passionate about storytelling. She started writing her first novel as a lonely fifth-grader and has been writing thereafter. Her debut novel <i>Lieable</i> was published in 2013. Her hobbies include reading, playing video games (including <i>The Sims 3</i>, of course), watching in-depth fictional character analysis videos on YouTube and baking desserts. She hopes that Indian teenagers will have access to a wider range of books they can identify with in the coming years. <i>Teen Machine</i> is her second published novel.

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