True to Form

Fourteen-year-old Katie moved to her small Missouri town two years ago after the death of her mother. She now lives with her stern, inaccessible father and his new wife, who means well, but cannot mend the tear in Katie's heart. Lonely, the "smart" kid at school who likes to read and write poetry, Katie forges alliances where she can: with a fellow misfit named Cynthia, with the old couple down the road, and with the three little boys she baby sits for. When Katie tries to move up in her social world, she ends up losing her best friend Cynthia and learns some very hard lessons about herself. Meanwhile, her ties to the Texas town where she grew up are fraying and when she goes back for a much longed for visit, she discovers that she has grown away from everything that once defined her and must learn who she is and who she can be all over again.Berg, Elizabeth is the author of 'True to Form', published 2002 under ISBN 9780743411349 and ISBN 074341134X.