Unlike most kids faced with the prospect of having a stepmother, Gabby Weiss isn't the slightest bit resistant to the idea. In fact, she wishes her father would hurry up and marry someone who knows about womanhood; someone who understands her worries about everything that is happening (or worse, not happening!) to her body. For a while, it seems like Cleo, her father's girlfriend, might fulfil this role. But when things fall apart, Gabby has to find her own solution. She decides to travel to the last place that she saw her mother, to try and reconstruct a memory of her. But what she finds there is something even better.

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Walker Books Ltd .

Nora Raleigh Baskin is the acclaimed author of many books for junior and teen readers, including Surfacing and All We Know of Love. She lives in Connecticut.