The Problem with Being Slightly Heroic

Uma Krishnaswami, Abigail Halpin

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781442423305

Dini is back from India—with Bollywood star Dolly in tow! But life in the States isn’t all rose petal milk shakes…

Dini and Maddie, very best friends, are back in the same country at the same time! Better still, Dolly Singh, the starriest star in all of Bollywood, is in America too. Dini’s only just returned from India, and already life is shaping up to be as delicious as a rose petal milk shake. Perfect. Then why can’t she untie the knot in her stomach? Because so much can go wrong when a big star like Dolly is in town. All Dini has to do is make sure Dolly has everything she needs, from a rose petal milk shake to her lost passport to…a parade? And an elephant?

Uh-oh… It’s time to think. What Would Dolly Do? If Dini can’t figure it out, Dolly might take matters into her own hands—and that will surely lead to the biggest mess of all!

Uma Krishnaswami has concocted a delicious sequel to her multiple star–reviewed The Grand Plan to Fix Everything, which Kirkus Reviews called “a delightful romp.”

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Chapter One: KHSV
• Chapter Two: Worried
• Chapter Three: A Dancing Effect
• Chapter Four: “Don’t Arrest Her!”
• Chapter Five: Futures
• Chapter Six: We Regret
• Chapter Seven: Distraught and Distracted
• Chapter Eight: Looking for Rose Petals
• Chapter Nine: Possibility
• Chapter Ten: When Something Falls
• Chapter Eleven: Bad Pacing
• Chapter Twelve: Who Will Bake the Cake?
• Chapter Thirteen: A Little Nervous
• Chapter Fourteen: The Real Surreal
• Chapter Fifteen: Urgent
• Chapter Sixteen: Terrible Option
• Chapter Seventeen: Juggling and Jostling
• Chapter Eighteen: A Few Questions
• Chapter Nineteen: Elephant-Proof
• Chapter Twenty: Tied into Knots
• Chapter Twenty-One: Not the Same
• Chapter Twenty-Two: No Elephants
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Avoiding Inconvenience
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Temporary Papers
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Chef!
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Help Out by Watching Out
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Finding a Mark
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Chickoo!
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: In the Fast Lane
• Chapter Thirty: Remotely Heroic
• Chapter Thirty-One: A Wrinkle in the Plotline
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Only Five Days Left
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Better with Three
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Across Many Time Zones
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Brilliant
• Chapter Thirty-Six: The Zoo?
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Zoo!
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: It Takes Three
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Cake
• Chapter Forty: Not Much to Ask For
• Chapter Forty-One: Fans
• Chapter Forty-Two: Fan-Sisters
• Chapter Forty-Three: Rehearsal
• Chapter Forty-Four: Rattled
• Chapter Forty-Five: Falling Star
• Chapter Forty-Six: Alert!
• Chapter Forty-Seven: Sleuths
• Chapter Forty-Eight: Breaking News
• Chapter Forty-Nine: Grimaces
• Chapter Fifty: Tell Her!
• Chapter Fifty-One: Sold!
• Chapter Fifty-Two: Terribly Sorry
• Chapter Fifty-Three: Hard to Believe
• Chapter Fifty-Four: The Not-a-Parade Parade
• Chapter Fifty-Five: The Grand Opening Dance
• Chapter Fifty-Six: Yes-Yes-Yes, No-No!
• About Uma Krishnaswami
• Copyright