Product Description Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchange gone hilariously, criminally wrong. Maria Petranelli will do anything to get away from her overbearing Italian-Australian family. So when they declare that she couldnt handle living in Italy, sixteen-year-old Maria signs up to go there on student exchange. What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything Despite months of mental preparation for every possible scenario, Maria is out of her depth in Italy. She struggles with the language, immediately gets scammed, and is terrible at socialising with the other high school exchange students especially Kennedy, a girl from America who is hopeless yet strangely attractive. When the two girls accidentally witness a crime, Maria discovers just what she can and cant handle. Being kidnapped in the boot of a car and driven off into the Italian countryside? Maybe. But working out her feelings for Kennedy before its too late?