📖Recommend for Grades 6 and up📖
by Julie Murphy
Thirteen-year-old Patricia, aka "Sweet Pea" has her life
turned upside down when her parents suddenly announce they are getting
divorced. Now her father's living two doors down in a house almost identical to
the one they once shared as a family with Sweet Pea splitting time between
them. In the middle of them is the home of the local advice columnist Miss.
Flora Mae, who entrusts Sweet Pea with taking care of her house and ensuring
the mail for the advice column, gets from her house to her sister's where she
is temporarily staying. During her first check-in, Sweet Pea finds herself
reading some of the letters, then answering one which she includes in Miss.
Flora Mae's stack. Now Sweet Pea finds herself answering a letter per column,
and her secret doesn't help the drama going on with her family and her best
friend.
Fun and entertaining, readers will be turning the page to find out what
happens with Sweet Pea. While her name (though it's a nickname everybody calls
her) may come across as odd, the character is wonderfully realistic. Sweet Pea
is overweight, but Murphy terrifically makes that a noted but minor point of
the story. Those who have divorced parents are likely to empathize with Sweet
Pea and may find some similar feelings shared.
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