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Reader reviewed by Dylana

This is a great book for young girls who are preteens and who are going through adolescence. This book is beautifully written with fascinating details about the world around you and nature.
This book is about an eleven year old girl named Edwina Stiles Beckey, but everyone calls her Eddie. Her best friend is Sally Hobart. They do everything together. Eddie loves to make lists and see things organized on paper. She wears rubber bands on her wrist, which she snaps to remind herself that she needs to break her annoying habits, such as leaning back in her chair.
The story revolves around Eddie's close relationship with Sally and Sally's grandmother, Willie. Sally doesn't live with her mother Jill, who never speaks, but is kind and well-liked. Willie takes good care of Sally and Eddie knows a lot of deep things about them.
Even though Eddie's lists are neat and organized, she learns that the real world and life are not the same. Everything is far from perfect and many things can happen that will hurt someone's heart badly. This is what happens when Willie becomes sick and knows she can't live much longer. Sally changes. She distances herself from Eddie and forgets everyting that has ever happend between them in thier friendship. This hurts and confuses Eddie. But Eddie tries her best to work things through for her friend and put the things she knows in life together to get through everything.
She meets some unexpected surprises and finds the importance of love and family when Jill has to learn how to be a true mother to Sally.
This book really touched my heart. Eddie's thoughts and character are so much like a realy young girl. It's very realistic and well written. I was captivated until the very last page. The ending was unexpected, though. You don't know what happens between Sally and Eddie. But the whole book keeps you wondering and thinking, and that's a good thing.