My Double Life is a Cinderella story in modern dress.  Alexia Garcia is a smart teenage Latina who gets good grades and has her sights set on a scholarship to a good college.  She’s also a perfect look-alike for teen rock star Kari Kingsley.  Alexia, with plain brown hair and little makeup,  is trying to work up the courage to ask a popular boy to the Sadie Hawkins dance, when she’s suddenly swept away to sunny California to be a body-double for the glamorous Miss Kingsley.  A new cut and color, dance classes, an unlimited clothing budget, and a skill for lip synching, and soon Alexia is earning tons of money by being Kari at mall openings, parades, fairs and rodeos.

This book takes you away to rock stardom, both the glamour and the hard work, but  Alexia struggles to stay true to herself while being someone else.  As with Cinderella, you know there’ll be a happy ending, but I couldn’t put it down until I found out how things would work out.  Teens will love this book, and parents will too as Alexia’s rock and roll story doesn’t include sex or drugs.