Karla lives in a modern family and has to deal with career-obsessed adults, divorce, stepbrothers and what follows all of that. In Renée Toft Simonsen’s successful novel she succeeds in showing this setup with a great love for the entire cast of characters and with a constant humoristic spark. Karla is a strong and energetic girl, who fights for what she believes in. Karla offers a very welcome and healthy alternative to the female role models children are exposed to in recent media.