The GoldThreaded Dress Author:Carolyn Marsden In Thailand, Oy was called by her own name, but in her first school in America, the teacher renames her Olivia. Everything else is different too. The other girls leave her out of their games, and a boy named Frankie teases her. Then Liliandra, a popular girl in the class, sees a photo of Oy in her Thai dancing dress, and offers to let Oy into he... more »r club if she brings the dress to school. Oy knows that would be a betrayal of her family traditions, but she wants so much to belong. At home, fingering the pink silk of her dress, Oy makes her decision.« less