I Am Not Jessica Chen

Jenna Chen has grown up beside her cousin Jessica, who scores highest on every test, turns heads in the school hallway and has a place at Harvard. Next to her, Jenna feels like nothing but a disappointment to her family.

In a moment of desperation, Jenna wishes she were Jessica, and the wish comes true in the most literal way. She wakes up living her cousin's life, the one she has always wanted, and she is now the model student at Havenwood Private Academy, a cutthroat school.

The new life does not feel the way Jenna pictured it. Worse, the people around her begin to forget that anyone named Jenna Chen ever existed. Her artistic talent, her childhood home and any hope that Aaron Cai, the golden boy she likes, might love her back all slip away with the old identity.

This is a young adult novel with a magical twist on a contemporary school setting. It centres on a question the heroine has to answer for herself: whether being the perfect cousin is worth losing everything that made her Jenna. The stakes are personal and the premise moves quickly.