Ormsbee, Kathryn

Eleven-year-old Katie navigates life as a homeschooler, forms a better understanding of the OCD she experiences, and learns that growing apart from friends is sometimes part of growing up.

After trying and failing to break her years-long curse of bad first days of school, eighth grader Vivian Lantz wishes for a do-over and gets stuck repeatedly reliving this year's horrible first day.

The once tight bond among three sisters, ages fourteen to eighteen, disappears as each deals with a personal setback; but when a letter arrives informing the sisters of a dead uncle and an inheritance they knew nothing about, the news forces them to band together in the face of a sinister family mystery, and possible murder.

Eleven-year-old Katie navigates life as a homeschooler, forms a better understanding of the OCD she experiences, and learns that growing apart from friends is sometimes part of growing up.

Katie and Kacey have been best friends since they met at their homeschool coop group. Now that summer has arrived, Katie and Kacey have decided to attend a sleepaway camp together. At camp, Kacey begins acting differently and Katie begins having worries that won't go away, including getting braces, starting sixth grade, and losing Kacey as her best friend. Her worries begin to manifest themselves as a buzzing noise around her head and seem to dissipate when she makes repetitive behaviors such as tapping. Her anxiety builds as the changes in her life continue and Katie learns to confront both with the help of family and friends.

Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her beloved grandmother to Alzheimer's, and she has begun to acknowledge, to herself at least, that she is more attracted to girls then boys.

"The once tight bond among three sisters, ages fourteen to eighteen, disappears as each deals with a personal setback; but when a letter arrives informing the sisters of a dead uncle and an inheritance they knew nothing about, the news forces them to band together in the face of a sinister family mystery, and possible murder"--Publisher.