This book is about a girl, JoEllen, whose parents have been divorced since she was a baby. She spends the week with her mom and the weekend with her dad. Her parents are very different people (her dad: a country boy; her mom: a city girl), and for a long time JoEllen is a different person with each of them. She never shared details of her life at one parent's with the other. Finally, though, she decides she would be happier if she combined herself into one person with one life. She doesn't really force her parents to get along or anything, but she does want each to know who she has been with the other, and to show her friends the other side of who she is.
I loved this book. It was written in a series of free-verse poems with drawing throughout that made it seem like a journal or scrapbook. These combined, made the story feel very intimate.
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