Goldschmidt, Judy

Although reluctant to leave her new boyfriend behind, Raisin Rodriguez anticipates a happy Christmas reunion in Berkeley with her father and best friends, Claudia and Pia, but realizes soon after her arrival that things have changed since she has been gone.

Still corresponding through her blog with her friends who live across the country, thirteen-year-old Raisin records her hopes and worries as she tries to obtain her first kiss from the long-lashed and cinnamon-scented CJ Mullen.

In a weblog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school.