Struggling to adjust to her parents sudden divorce at the same time she is forced to sit next to her former best friend in class, a teen finds herself in the unlikely role of a community advice columnist. By the best-selling author of Dumplin. Simultaneous.
The first middle grade novel from Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin (now a popular Netflix film), is a funny, heartwarming story perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Ali Benjamin, and Holly Goldberg Sloan.
Patricia Sweet Pea DiMarco wasnt sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the brilliant idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind Miss Flora Mae I?
Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesnt help that at school, Sweet Pea is now sitting right next to her exbest friend, Kiera, a daily reminder of the friendship that once was. Things might be unbearable if Sweet Pea didnt have Oscarher new best friendand her fifteen-pound cat, Cheese.
Then one day Flora leaves for a trip and asks Sweet Pea to forward her the letters for the column. And Sweet Pea happens to recognize the handwriting on one of the envelopes.
What she decides to do with that letter sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of Sweet Pea DiMarco, her family, and many of the readers of Miss Flora Mae I?
