Hi everyone! This is my first post so I hope you all aprove! So, this book is one that I read while on vacation this past April Vacation. It's called "Water Balloon" and its by Audry Vernick. The whole story is based on the hardships of being a young women and the author definatly pulls it off with her teenage dialect and attitude. The main character, is Marley Baird, a 12 year old girl who has been going throught the hardships of having divorced parents. The story starts off when she is being sent to her fathers new house for the summer, and gravely disagrees with her parents decision. If only she knew about the boy next door, Jack, who Vernick repeatedly writes as "the guy with light blue eyes." But once he and Marley meet, it is not love at first sight. It takes just a little bit until she is pulled into his warmth and kindness and well, totally falls head over heels for him! But during all this, there are a few other things she must figure out, like the baby sitting job of five year old twins Faith and Grace which is most certainly DIDN'T want, the gradualness of her and her friends, Leah and Jane, moving away from each other (not litterally), the disaterous Water Balloon Blitz.

Read how Marley overcomes these harships in Vernicks first novel for young readers. A must buy!