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It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World

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This was a great book. I read it one summer and it was my second favorite book that summer. My first one was the DIVORCE EXPRESS by PAULA DANZIGER

Fourteen-year-old best friends Rosie and Phoebe are thrilled when their single parents fall in love and decide to move in together. But, as they quickly learn, being best friends is totally different than having to share a room together. And, as their parents learn, it's hard to blend two different families and lifestyles together without some kind of problems arising.

Rosie, who is half white and half black, also realizes that she's the odd one out. With Phoebe and her father, Rosie's mother Mindy has finally formed an all-white family, while her dad has also formed an all-black family with his new wife. It's only Rosie who doesn't fully belong in either family.

When Phoebe invites Rosie to visit her stepfather's relatives in Canada, she jumps at the chance. She's even more thrilled to meet their teenage son, Jason, who's everything she ever wanted in a boyfriend. It's then that Rosie realizes the importance of valuing a person's inner self, no matter what others think.

This book was great. Rosie's life is similar to the people who have to deal with their parents being divorced. People with divorced parents usually have to visit both of them which means that they will have to go back and forth just to see them.
This book was short but it was great. It was kind of sad when Rosie's family was fighting with each other and she was the one who was stuck in the middle. When I first looked at it, I thought that it would be another one of those boring books but when I started to read it, it got exciting so I kept reading until I got to the end.

If you've already devoured the rest of Danzingers and are just looking for another one of her books to sink your teeth into then this is the book for you. If you haven't read any of her books and are just looking for a short read, don't read this, read the first one, THE DIVORCE EXPRESS. It's a pretty good sequel to THE DIVORCE EXPRESS. Rosie's mom and Dad get together and start living with each other the girls find out just how hard it can be to live with some one, even if your best friends with that person!

This book was a great book and it was one of the better sequels I have read in a long time, but I read it in one day. It wasn't because it was interesting, it was because it was to easy to read. I am not one of those people who don't go outside, because they read all day, but you could read this book in about one hour.I would recomend this book to a first grader, even though it is for young adults.

I really enjoyed this read, short and sweet, however a teen deserves to be given a stronger more respectable vocabulary when approaching the taboos of teen's life. Is it necessary to approve of the jargon teen's apply to sex etc.? VAluable lessons and a great characterization, but by applying their language is not the only way.