Bauman, Beth Ann

Fifteen-year-old Rosie and her sixteen-year-old sister Skate are looked after by their cousin Angie while their father, a drunk, spends a few weeks in jail, and both girls endure problems with boyfriends and family while living in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore.

Fifteen-year-old Rosie and her sixteen-year-old sister Skate are looked after by their cousin Angie while their father, a drunk, spends a few weeks in jail, and both girls endure problems with boyfriends and family while living in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore.

Shapely seventeen-year-old Angel Cassonetti, who lives with her younger siblings and single mother in a house at the Jersey Shore, finds it hard to stay away from ex-boyfriend Joey Sardone.

Fifteen-year-old Rosie and her sixteen-year-old sister Skate are looked after by their cousin Angie while their father, a drunk, spends a few weeks in jail, and both girls endure problems with boyfriends and family while living in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore.