{"product_id":"2940148962731","title":"Focused on the Journey","description":"This is the true story about Alissa, a 14 year old girl living in a foreign country doing an \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eexchange program called En Famille. She spends six months in Paris with a Catholic \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench family of 6 kids. Chloe's family consists of her parents, Fran and Alex, and siblings \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarie, Anthony, Oliver, Matthew and Eric. Most names have been changed to protect the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003epeople in this story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrior to her coming to France, Chloe, also 14 lived with Alissa's family in the United States for \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esix months.  While Chloe was living in the US, her and Alissa became close. Alissa is one fourth \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench, half Russian and part Romanian. Being part French, Alissa has family all over France, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhich encourages her to do this exchange, learn the language embrace the culture, and become\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecloser to her French family. She grew up in West Los Angeles for the majority of her life before  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edoing this exchange in France. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e     This story is told in the format of journal entries written by Alissa. It begins with Alissa \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etraveling around France with her family for a week and then being dropped off with Chloe's \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehouse in Paris, shortly followed by spending the summer at the family's beach house in \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMesquer, a small town in the North West region of France. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis story follows the challenges and struggles of living in a Foreign country, and how Alissa \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eovercomes these challenges and in the end has a life changing experience. Not looking at the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edestination, she is focused on the journey","brand":"Alissa Harway Antman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170897740016,"sku":"2940148962731","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148962731_p0.jpg?v=1763717003","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148962731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}