Supplee, Suzanne

Almost-eleven-year-old Josephine is dismayed when she has to move into the Happy World trailer park in the summer of 1974, but when she tries to solve the kidnapping of her ten-year-old neighbor Molly, she finds unexpected friendships in her community.

Upon graduating from high school in a tiny Tennessee town, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to continue pursuing her dreams.

When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.

Seventeen-year-old Delk Sinclair travels to Ireland as part of study program, hoping to leave behind her memories of her mother, her hatred for her new stepmother, and her confusion about the future, but instead of finding an escape, Delk falls in love with a handsome Irish boy who helps her come to terms with her past.

When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer.