


This story uses humor and hope to address issues of adapting to a blended family, having a loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s, and struggling through that first innocent romantic relationship.Ĭynthia chose to write for young people to show them how wonderful, powerful, and valuable they are. V from being taken thousands of miles away? And will she lose all the friends she’s fought so hard to gain? V’s deaf grandson, alienates stepsister Alice by having a boyfriend in the first place, and upsets her friend Gayle without knowing why. She risks losing boyfriend David by befriending Mrs.

Faster than you can say “crawdad,” Wendy digs into the scandal and into trouble. V sees her dead husband and hints at a 1960s family scandal down in Cajun country. Villaturo look at old photo albums together. Wendy Robichaud is on schedule to have everything she wants at the start of high school: two loyal best friends, a complete and happy family, and a hunky boyfriend she’s had a crush on since eighth grade-until she and Mrs. A Cajun family secret, two very different boys, and a fight to keep a grandmother’s love-who would’ve guessed that looking through old photo albums could get Wendy into so much trouble?
