In addition to coping with her changing relationship with her mother, twelve-year-old Margaret spends her summer trying to sort out her feelings for the boy next door who claims to love her.
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What happens when you get what you think you want and thendon't know what to do with it? When twelve-year-old Margarethears the boy next door call to her in the middle of the night,her heart races with excitement - and nervousness. Will thismean Sherman is her boyfriend? Although Sherman insists thatMargaret come and join him for a moonlit bike ride, he doesn'tknow what to expect any more than she does. But Shermanmakes a big mistake on their first date, and Margaret doesn'tknow if she will ever forgive him. Things get even more chaoticwhen Sherman shows up with a squirrel he calls LittleMargaret.Facing disapproval from her mother, the complications inherentin living with three-year-old twin sisters, and self-imposedpressure to emulate a best friend with confidence enough fortwo, Margaret attempts to sort out her feelings for Sherman. Inthe process, she may just find a place for herself in her familyand the larger world, in this sparkling debut novel set in theearly 1960s.
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