Summary
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York. Full description
- Tin box on a tar patch
- Small stuff
- Welcome pie
- According to Webster's
- The over-underpass
- A renovation
- Tryouts and friendships
- Gates and bridges
- TV and toast dinners
- A gift of cream and honey
- A bunch of numbskulls
- A violent storm
- evening interview
- Waiting for Mommers
- Late-night mail
- Another dish of fish-and-chips
- A different sort of Halloween
- A phone call from the mansion
- The new blue car
- All or nothing
- Dwight explaining Hannah
- All about twos and fours
- Bedtime at the inn
- Breakfasts and boxes
- A ton of turkey soup
- From good to bad
- Willing to bloom
- Twists and turns
- The counting-on part
- A frozen good-bye
- An unexpected meeting
- A few gifts before Christmas
- Waiting for normal
- Jingle all the way
- Another thing to borrow
- Loads of snow
- A visit from Grandio
- Valentine hearts
- The goosh in my gut
- Fiesta night
- Making changes
- My fault
- A hero in the fog
- After the fire
- Something familiar
- The going-away note
- Defining normal
- Full of surprises
- All to home.