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The Lump in the Middle
A summer in a Cape Cod cottage should be a dream vacation, but for 13-year-old Kelsey, it is a time of trouble. The failure of a Cincinnati company has thrown her father out of work and forced them to sell their home. The loss of everything familiar places an understandable strain on everyone, and the close quarters of Aunt Syl's loaned cottage magnify normal family difficulties. Kelsey, a middle child, feels unappreciated; her older sister seems perfect, and her younger sister is cute and impossible. Kelsey's father has become remote, and her mother always blames her when things go wrong. Adler accurately captures the problems of the middle child, just as she portrayed those of the youngest in Get Lost, Little Brother (Clarion, 1983). Readers will enjoy the beach scenes and a light love interest, but also they may see their own complaints examined from several constructive viewpoints. Kelsey learns that all families have a degree of friction and that by modifying some of her own behavior, she can make her family and herself happier.
Cindy Darling Codell
160 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1991
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C.S. Adler
53 books22 followersC.S. (Carole) Adler moved to Tucson, Arizona, after spending most of her life in upstate New York. She was an English teacher at Niskayuna Middle School for nearly a decade. She is a passionate tennis player, grandmother, and nature lover, and has been a full-time writer since the publication of her first book,The Magic of the Glits, in 1979. That book won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award.
Her bookThe Shell Lady’s Daughter was chosen by the A.L.A. as a best young adult book of l983. With Westie and the Tin Man won the Children’s Book Award of the Child Study Committee in l986, and that committee has commended many of Adler’s books. Split Sisters in l987 and Ghost Brother in 1991 were I.R.A. Children’s Choices selections. One Sister Too Many was on the 1991 Young Adults’ Choices list. Always and Forever Friends and Eddie’s Blue Winged Dragon were on a 1991 I.R.A. 99 Favorite Paperbacks list.
Many of her books have been on state lists and have also been published in Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, and France.
Her bookThe Shell Lady’s Daughter was chosen by the A.L.A. as a best young adult book of l983. With Westie and the Tin Man won the Children’s Book Award of the Child Study Committee in l986, and that committee has commended many of Adler’s books. Split Sisters in l987 and Ghost Brother in 1991 were I.R.A. Children’s Choices selections. One Sister Too Many was on the 1991 Young Adults’ Choices list. Always and Forever Friends and Eddie’s Blue Winged Dragon were on a 1991 I.R.A. 99 Favorite Paperbacks list.
Many of her books have been on state lists and have also been published in Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, and France.
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September 2, 2020
I picked this up free, because it was going to be discarded at the bookshop I used to volunteer at. It looked cute, with the promise of romance.
Even before reading, I didn’t like how the synopsis says Kelsey meets 15 yr old Gabe and lies to him about her age. I’ve never lied about my age at any stage of my life, so I found that annoying.
She told her friend you think I’m nice and everyone likes me but that’s with my friends. With her family, she turns mean, saying awful things and fighting.
Gabe’s dad was instantly off-putting, creepy and an ass. When Kelsey says looks like you have to be strong to handle the sailboat,& she’s not very muscular the dad says “well built, but definitely not muscular.” And she tingles pleasantly.
Wtf was that?! She’s a young girl, pre-teen, and he’s an older man.
I tried reading this June 2018, got to page 21, when this creepy scene was going down, and had to stop. I had no desire whatsoever to continue. I guess I didn’t try reading it again last year, because it’s two years later when I made myself pick this up and was determined to plow through it just to see how it would end up, and to finally have read it.
The heroine was not likable. I'd rather this book was in Ria's POV. And of course Mandy's boobs are bigger than her older sister’s.
‘You think I’m nice and that everybody likes me, but that’s with my friends. With my family, I turn mean. I do, Jennifer. I say awful things and fight all the time. I’ll turn into a monster with just them around this summer.’
Sometimes Kelsey was a complete brat, and other times I could understand her point of view, feeling like her kid sister takes up her parents time,& that she’s the unloved middle child. This book was pretty juvenile and dramatic, though.
She takes her sister shirt without asking cause she was asleep.
‘“You always say sisters should share.”
“You should have asked her permission,” Mom said.
“Why can’t you ever, ever, ever take my side!” Kelsey cried.’
Of course she gets jam on the shirt.
There were some mature elements to the story that felt a little old for this age group. I mean, she’s only 13.
A guy went to kiss her and she ducked and he licked her ear.
And her seven year old sister tried smoking their dads cigarettes.
“Wild is a kid who drinks and smokes and does drugs and sex, & I haven’t done any of those things.”
Gabe’s asshole dad:
‘“You a windsurfing aficionado?”
“No, I just like to watch.”
“I’m with you,” the man said, “but a chance to get dumped in the drink was what Gabe wanted for his birthday. No accounting for tastes, is there?”
“It’ll be warmer this afternoon,” she said.
“Me, I’d wait, or go back and see about a wet suit,” the man said, “but Gabe’s a real he-man.”
“Dad! Don’t mock me,” Gabe said. “My father’s a joker.”
-“You ever try windsurfing?”
She shook her head. “It looks like you have to be pretty strong to handle it, and I’m not very muscular.”
“Well built, but definitely not muscular,” the man said.
The remark made Kelsey tingle pleasantly, even though she crossed her arms over her chest. But Gabe scolded, “Hey, Dad, cool it, will you?”
“What’d I say? Ladies like compliments, honest ones. Don’t they?” he asked Kelsey.
Before she could agree, Gabe said, “She’s a girl, not a lady.”
“What do you mean telling this pretty girl she’s not a lady,” his father shot back. “And you’re giving me lessons in tact?”
The lie about her age was even stupider because she didn’t even tell Gabe that, she told his dad! He asked if her sister was older or younger. She hadn’t even said what grade her sister was in, then she just up and thinks Gabe wouldn’t have anything to do with her if he knew she was 13. So she lies and says she’s 15.
“You in high school?” Herb asked.
“Hmmm?” She stalled.
“Well, don’t be insulted. You could be one of these amazingly young-looking matrons with kids of your own for all I know. Guessing a woman’s age is beyond me.”
The word pluperfect was used,& I have literally never heard of that.
“Pluperfect proper.”
‘Pluperfect honest.’
More creepiness:
‘“Maybe if he had someone his own age to talk to...” Herb jerked his eyebrows up and down in a humorous plea.
“Well, but I don’t think he likes me.”
“What do you mean? Not like you! You knock him dead every time he gets up the courage to sneak a peek.”
“Now you’re teasing me,” Kelsey said and added indignantly, “I couldn’t knock anybody dead. I’ve got red hair and freckles and besides, I’m too young.”
Herb’s smile was tender. “My first wife, Gabe’s mother, had red hair and freckles.”
“Did she die?” Kelsey asked respectfully.’
Creep alert. Also, how is asking that respectful?
“She’s a college professor at the state university in Albany. Gabe lives with her.”
“Oh.” Suddenly Kelsey understood why it was so important to Herb Altman that Gabe enjoy himself.
“Ah!” He smiled, reading her mind. “I took you for the kind of woman who’d understand.”
‘Kelsey wondered if something was wrong with him. She hoped not. She likes him. And he’d said she was the kind of woman who understood. That was the best thing anyone had said to her in weeks.’
-“Because they do things like accusing me of smoking when I haven’t been.”
“And you’re Miss Innocent?” He grinned at her.
What could she say? Miss innocent. She didn’t want him to think she was boring. “Well,” she fibbed, imagining her much older self, “maybe I smoke now and then or have a beer, like at a party, but I’m not—you know, a real hard case.”
“Glad to hear it,” Gabe said. “I didn’t take you for a real hard case.”
He was teasing her.’
Instead of immediately telling Gabe her age, she goes and lies about smoking and drinking.
Her dad tells her to sit up for the picture and her hairs in her face, & she wonders why Gabe’s dad Herb can’t be her dad cause he thinks she’s pretty. When her dad asks if she can smile for the picture she tears up and then bursts into tears. Pretty freaking bizarre.
It’s like this author didn’t know if she wanted to make Kelsey a total brat or to make readers sympathetic and understanding of her, because it kept flip flopping between them.
-They used the term ‘ocean beach’ which I found odd.
‘“Was Mother with you when you bought that?” Ria asked, looking at Kelsey’s chest.
“Sure. Can’t you see it’s blue? But I’ve probably developed since May. Don’t look at me, aria. It’s embarrassing. Do I look gross?”
“You look sexy.” Ria considered. “And older than you are. Maybe you’ll get away with it after all.”
Maybe I don’t like Kelsey because I wasn’t like that at her age, at any age, so I just can’t relate to her most of the time.
It was interesting to hear how only children are good at talking to adults.
I still think the title sounds weird, but it makes more sense after it was a line in the book.
“Sara’s Daddy’s girl...Ria’s closest to Mom.”
“Where does that leave you?”
“Me? I’m the lump in the middle.”
Her dad tells Gabe her age and he doesn’t say anything and accepts her dad’s invitation to come over and watch tv. Clearly showing he doesn’t mind she’s 2 years younger. So what does she do? Freaks out and thinks Gabe will like her sister. Wth.
She says her mom and sister Sara would read her diary if she left it out and then later admits she’d read their diaries if they were left out. Hypocrisy.
‘Kelsey turner back to the mirror. She put her hand on her hip and raised her eyebrows haughtily as she imagined herself decked out in a new outfit. She’d look at least sixteen. “It’s how old you act, not how old you are that matters, Gabe,” she’d tell him.’ Well you still act 13, sometimes even less. More like your 7 year old sister.
Her sister says she’ll beat her up if she babysits her and she calls her a liar,& that she isn’t an angel to her,& then tears up. For no reason.
She thinks ‘if she could stay cool with Sara, it would be a cinch to convince Gabe of her maturity.”
Any time Kelsey was given the chance to be mature and responsible she does the wrong thing. Uses her sisters hairbrush when she knows her sister doesn’t like sharing. Taking her sisters new shirt without asking when she knows her sister likes asking first. Goes to look for blueberries and gets lost.
She gets them lost looking for blueberries but wants to kill her sister for whining about them walking in the woods for hours, getting scratched and bitten& being near poison ivy.
She says she’s “stupid, awkward, and ugly” but how is she awkward? She seems just fine talking to people. And ugly? When you mention your long legs and big boobs? When you get compliments from Gabe’s dad,& guys honked at you driving by? I don’t think she thinks she’s ugly.
Ria says Kelsey is good at emotional stuff, and Kelsey says that was true, she’s good at feelings if nothing else. Um...when?
I knew Gabe’s dad was sick, though it takes a long time to come out.
Then the book got weirdly deep and emotional when the whole thing has been angsty and childish as crap.
Kelsey was wise beyond her years.
‘Don’t be mean to your father now, Gabe, she wanted to tell him. You’ll regret it later if you are. Poor Herb. Not to have anyone at all to love you, that had to be the worst pain. Maybe he HAD been selfish to reach out to his son when it was already too late, but she couldn’t blame him. So Gabe was stuck with some suffering he could have done without. He wasn’t the one who was dying.’
Her parents get Kelsey the shorts they promised her, for babysitting Sara, but they also get Sara and Ria something too. She says “another present?” all disapprovingly about Sara’s gift and when her mom accuses her of being glum about her sisters getting extra she says “oh, mom! How can you accuse me of anything that mean?” Then her mom feels bad. “If I were as awful as you think, I’d be a terrible person, but I’m not. I’m really not,” Kelsey said.
Despite Kelsey being jealous of her sisters, Ria is jealous of her. Of course. That she’s good with people like Kelsey is,& how she gets more phone calls and knew what to say to Gabe about his dad being sick.
“Why is it that I can get along with most anybody in the world except my family, Ria? Maybe because it’s harder to live together than just to be with someone once in a while.”
“You know what confuses me most?”
“What?”
“Idk whether to hate myself or the rest of you.”
Gabe’s dad thanks Kelsey for setting Gabe straight about him, but then finishes with a kiss on the cheek, and an inappropriate comment. “You’re really something, kid. You’re beautiful now, and you’re going to turn into a dynamite woman.”
“Kelsey, would you panic if I kissed you?”
“Now?” she said, panicking.
“Well, there won’t be a better time. I mean, I’m leaving, and who knows when—“
She nodded, closing her eyes. A butterfly touch on her lips and nothing more. Her eyes shot open. “Is that it?”
“You’re only thirteen. What do you expect?”
“A lot,” she told him.’
I didn’t like the thought of suave Gabe having all this experience, and treating her like a little kid.
‘If only Kelsey could join them without messing up the scene! If only she could avoid falling into the same old bad patterns.’
The end was unrealistic that Kelsey could change so easily, but I liked that she’d attempt it. Her and her mom didn’t even have the talk about reconciliation.
At times I related to the heroine, understood her, agreed with her, and other times I thought she was a complete and total brat and would be a nightmare when she turns into a teenager/young adult.
This is one of those books about family and not romance. It looked cute but boy was that not the case.
I’m so glad to be done. Extreme relief. The ending wasn’t very good. Not good ending to a not good book. She asks her sister if she wants to play paddle ball.
Also a book where the hero and heroine don’t end up together. They’re living in different places. Gabe’s from Albany, New York, & and they’re moving to Boston I think.
This book is from 1989, way older than I thought!! I guess this is what YA was back then.
I’ll be donating this book back. And this was one of the free ones I got that had the most promise. A sad thought.
Even before reading, I didn’t like how the synopsis says Kelsey meets 15 yr old Gabe and lies to him about her age. I’ve never lied about my age at any stage of my life, so I found that annoying.
She told her friend you think I’m nice and everyone likes me but that’s with my friends. With her family, she turns mean, saying awful things and fighting.
Gabe’s dad was instantly off-putting, creepy and an ass. When Kelsey says looks like you have to be strong to handle the sailboat,& she’s not very muscular the dad says “well built, but definitely not muscular.” And she tingles pleasantly.
Wtf was that?! She’s a young girl, pre-teen, and he’s an older man.
I tried reading this June 2018, got to page 21, when this creepy scene was going down, and had to stop. I had no desire whatsoever to continue. I guess I didn’t try reading it again last year, because it’s two years later when I made myself pick this up and was determined to plow through it just to see how it would end up, and to finally have read it.
The heroine was not likable. I'd rather this book was in Ria's POV. And of course Mandy's boobs are bigger than her older sister’s.
‘You think I’m nice and that everybody likes me, but that’s with my friends. With my family, I turn mean. I do, Jennifer. I say awful things and fight all the time. I’ll turn into a monster with just them around this summer.’
Sometimes Kelsey was a complete brat, and other times I could understand her point of view, feeling like her kid sister takes up her parents time,& that she’s the unloved middle child. This book was pretty juvenile and dramatic, though.
She takes her sister shirt without asking cause she was asleep.
‘“You always say sisters should share.”
“You should have asked her permission,” Mom said.
“Why can’t you ever, ever, ever take my side!” Kelsey cried.’
Of course she gets jam on the shirt.
There were some mature elements to the story that felt a little old for this age group. I mean, she’s only 13.
A guy went to kiss her and she ducked and he licked her ear.
And her seven year old sister tried smoking their dads cigarettes.
“Wild is a kid who drinks and smokes and does drugs and sex, & I haven’t done any of those things.”
Gabe’s asshole dad:
‘“You a windsurfing aficionado?”
“No, I just like to watch.”
“I’m with you,” the man said, “but a chance to get dumped in the drink was what Gabe wanted for his birthday. No accounting for tastes, is there?”
“It’ll be warmer this afternoon,” she said.
“Me, I’d wait, or go back and see about a wet suit,” the man said, “but Gabe’s a real he-man.”
“Dad! Don’t mock me,” Gabe said. “My father’s a joker.”
-“You ever try windsurfing?”
She shook her head. “It looks like you have to be pretty strong to handle it, and I’m not very muscular.”
“Well built, but definitely not muscular,” the man said.
The remark made Kelsey tingle pleasantly, even though she crossed her arms over her chest. But Gabe scolded, “Hey, Dad, cool it, will you?”
“What’d I say? Ladies like compliments, honest ones. Don’t they?” he asked Kelsey.
Before she could agree, Gabe said, “She’s a girl, not a lady.”
“What do you mean telling this pretty girl she’s not a lady,” his father shot back. “And you’re giving me lessons in tact?”
The lie about her age was even stupider because she didn’t even tell Gabe that, she told his dad! He asked if her sister was older or younger. She hadn’t even said what grade her sister was in, then she just up and thinks Gabe wouldn’t have anything to do with her if he knew she was 13. So she lies and says she’s 15.
“You in high school?” Herb asked.
“Hmmm?” She stalled.
“Well, don’t be insulted. You could be one of these amazingly young-looking matrons with kids of your own for all I know. Guessing a woman’s age is beyond me.”
The word pluperfect was used,& I have literally never heard of that.
“Pluperfect proper.”
‘Pluperfect honest.’
More creepiness:
‘“Maybe if he had someone his own age to talk to...” Herb jerked his eyebrows up and down in a humorous plea.
“Well, but I don’t think he likes me.”
“What do you mean? Not like you! You knock him dead every time he gets up the courage to sneak a peek.”
“Now you’re teasing me,” Kelsey said and added indignantly, “I couldn’t knock anybody dead. I’ve got red hair and freckles and besides, I’m too young.”
Herb’s smile was tender. “My first wife, Gabe’s mother, had red hair and freckles.”
“Did she die?” Kelsey asked respectfully.’
Creep alert. Also, how is asking that respectful?
“She’s a college professor at the state university in Albany. Gabe lives with her.”
“Oh.” Suddenly Kelsey understood why it was so important to Herb Altman that Gabe enjoy himself.
“Ah!” He smiled, reading her mind. “I took you for the kind of woman who’d understand.”
‘Kelsey wondered if something was wrong with him. She hoped not. She likes him. And he’d said she was the kind of woman who understood. That was the best thing anyone had said to her in weeks.’
-“Because they do things like accusing me of smoking when I haven’t been.”
“And you’re Miss Innocent?” He grinned at her.
What could she say? Miss innocent. She didn’t want him to think she was boring. “Well,” she fibbed, imagining her much older self, “maybe I smoke now and then or have a beer, like at a party, but I’m not—you know, a real hard case.”
“Glad to hear it,” Gabe said. “I didn’t take you for a real hard case.”
He was teasing her.’
Instead of immediately telling Gabe her age, she goes and lies about smoking and drinking.
Her dad tells her to sit up for the picture and her hairs in her face, & she wonders why Gabe’s dad Herb can’t be her dad cause he thinks she’s pretty. When her dad asks if she can smile for the picture she tears up and then bursts into tears. Pretty freaking bizarre.
It’s like this author didn’t know if she wanted to make Kelsey a total brat or to make readers sympathetic and understanding of her, because it kept flip flopping between them.
-They used the term ‘ocean beach’ which I found odd.
‘“Was Mother with you when you bought that?” Ria asked, looking at Kelsey’s chest.
“Sure. Can’t you see it’s blue? But I’ve probably developed since May. Don’t look at me, aria. It’s embarrassing. Do I look gross?”
“You look sexy.” Ria considered. “And older than you are. Maybe you’ll get away with it after all.”
Maybe I don’t like Kelsey because I wasn’t like that at her age, at any age, so I just can’t relate to her most of the time.
It was interesting to hear how only children are good at talking to adults.
I still think the title sounds weird, but it makes more sense after it was a line in the book.
“Sara’s Daddy’s girl...Ria’s closest to Mom.”
“Where does that leave you?”
“Me? I’m the lump in the middle.”
Her dad tells Gabe her age and he doesn’t say anything and accepts her dad’s invitation to come over and watch tv. Clearly showing he doesn’t mind she’s 2 years younger. So what does she do? Freaks out and thinks Gabe will like her sister. Wth.
She says her mom and sister Sara would read her diary if she left it out and then later admits she’d read their diaries if they were left out. Hypocrisy.
‘Kelsey turner back to the mirror. She put her hand on her hip and raised her eyebrows haughtily as she imagined herself decked out in a new outfit. She’d look at least sixteen. “It’s how old you act, not how old you are that matters, Gabe,” she’d tell him.’ Well you still act 13, sometimes even less. More like your 7 year old sister.
Her sister says she’ll beat her up if she babysits her and she calls her a liar,& that she isn’t an angel to her,& then tears up. For no reason.
She thinks ‘if she could stay cool with Sara, it would be a cinch to convince Gabe of her maturity.”
Any time Kelsey was given the chance to be mature and responsible she does the wrong thing. Uses her sisters hairbrush when she knows her sister doesn’t like sharing. Taking her sisters new shirt without asking when she knows her sister likes asking first. Goes to look for blueberries and gets lost.
She gets them lost looking for blueberries but wants to kill her sister for whining about them walking in the woods for hours, getting scratched and bitten& being near poison ivy.
She says she’s “stupid, awkward, and ugly” but how is she awkward? She seems just fine talking to people. And ugly? When you mention your long legs and big boobs? When you get compliments from Gabe’s dad,& guys honked at you driving by? I don’t think she thinks she’s ugly.
Ria says Kelsey is good at emotional stuff, and Kelsey says that was true, she’s good at feelings if nothing else. Um...when?
I knew Gabe’s dad was sick, though it takes a long time to come out.
Then the book got weirdly deep and emotional when the whole thing has been angsty and childish as crap.
Kelsey was wise beyond her years.
‘Don’t be mean to your father now, Gabe, she wanted to tell him. You’ll regret it later if you are. Poor Herb. Not to have anyone at all to love you, that had to be the worst pain. Maybe he HAD been selfish to reach out to his son when it was already too late, but she couldn’t blame him. So Gabe was stuck with some suffering he could have done without. He wasn’t the one who was dying.’
Her parents get Kelsey the shorts they promised her, for babysitting Sara, but they also get Sara and Ria something too. She says “another present?” all disapprovingly about Sara’s gift and when her mom accuses her of being glum about her sisters getting extra she says “oh, mom! How can you accuse me of anything that mean?” Then her mom feels bad. “If I were as awful as you think, I’d be a terrible person, but I’m not. I’m really not,” Kelsey said.
Despite Kelsey being jealous of her sisters, Ria is jealous of her. Of course. That she’s good with people like Kelsey is,& how she gets more phone calls and knew what to say to Gabe about his dad being sick.
“Why is it that I can get along with most anybody in the world except my family, Ria? Maybe because it’s harder to live together than just to be with someone once in a while.”
“You know what confuses me most?”
“What?”
“Idk whether to hate myself or the rest of you.”
Gabe’s dad thanks Kelsey for setting Gabe straight about him, but then finishes with a kiss on the cheek, and an inappropriate comment. “You’re really something, kid. You’re beautiful now, and you’re going to turn into a dynamite woman.”
“Kelsey, would you panic if I kissed you?”
“Now?” she said, panicking.
“Well, there won’t be a better time. I mean, I’m leaving, and who knows when—“
She nodded, closing her eyes. A butterfly touch on her lips and nothing more. Her eyes shot open. “Is that it?”
“You’re only thirteen. What do you expect?”
“A lot,” she told him.’
I didn’t like the thought of suave Gabe having all this experience, and treating her like a little kid.
‘If only Kelsey could join them without messing up the scene! If only she could avoid falling into the same old bad patterns.’
The end was unrealistic that Kelsey could change so easily, but I liked that she’d attempt it. Her and her mom didn’t even have the talk about reconciliation.
At times I related to the heroine, understood her, agreed with her, and other times I thought she was a complete and total brat and would be a nightmare when she turns into a teenager/young adult.
This is one of those books about family and not romance. It looked cute but boy was that not the case.
I’m so glad to be done. Extreme relief. The ending wasn’t very good. Not good ending to a not good book. She asks her sister if she wants to play paddle ball.
Also a book where the hero and heroine don’t end up together. They’re living in different places. Gabe’s from Albany, New York, & and they’re moving to Boston I think.
This book is from 1989, way older than I thought!! I guess this is what YA was back then.
I’ll be donating this book back. And this was one of the free ones I got that had the most promise. A sad thought.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 29, 2017
Don't worry, I paid the fine for accidentally losing this library book... which I found a week after I coughed up my allowance for it. And I just found it again in my parents' garage so I decided to revisit the books of my preteen years and...
I don't like this book. It sends a terrible message to teens and preteens and I hope it's not that widely read anymore.
Sorry.
I don't like this book. It sends a terrible message to teens and preteens and I hope it's not that widely read anymore.
Sorry.
November 19, 2014
This book undeniably was the first book that actually got me into reading and collecting various other books. I read this one while attending Elementary school. I remember the characters being so convincing at that time.I felt it gave me a different perspective of what it is to be a middle child.
August 15, 2012
For some reason when I was in middle school I loved this book. I could relate to the main character not feeling like she was as important as her older and younger sister. Such a great book to recall that I now own my very copy.
August 8, 2011
This is one of my all time favorite books! I remember that after checking it out from out local library so many times the Librarian just gave me the book to .keep.
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