Holmes, Elizabeth Ann

Now that Jake's parents have separated, he hopes he can still stay in a cabin with his dad by a lake. When they arrive at the cabin they discover it's shabby and the lake is very polluted. Then he meets a boy, Adrian, playing basketball really well but he has a difficult attitude and Jake's friendship with him disintegrates.

Eleven-year-old Erin, feeling left out when her former best friend starts ignoring her, and embarrassed by her dorky older sister, does some growing up over the summer before middle school when an act of revenge causes her to rethink the meaning of family and friendship.