After prodding her best friend Annie into trying out for the lead in the play she has written for their sixth grade class, Charlotte feels herself losing control of her own play and experiences jealousy when Annie suddenly gets all the attention....
In her journal, chapters of the novel she is writing, and letters to a New York editor who has befriended her, a fifteen-year-old budding author reveals her journey of self-discovery in the midst of a dysfunctional family...
Through a series of letters to her dad, a jealous Eloise describes her new sister to her father who is living overseas for several months, but the tone of the letters change as she learns to love and accept the new edition to the family. Simultaneous...
Homer's parents area mystery. His father died when he was only two. And his mothers refuses to talk about him. Or about anything important really. Her response to questions is either silence, evasion, or sudden migraine headaches. So, Homer's given u...