Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended family's adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss.

Grounded. Again. Stuart is the most in-trouble kid ever. His super-obsessive single-parent mom is always on his case, and if he’s busted one more time, she’s threatening the unthinkable—no soccer! Stuart’s best friend, a wise and wacky girl named Mack, hatches an unsettling plan to distract his mom by fixing her up with Mack’s uncle. It just might work, though—if their friendship doesn’t unravel first. And anyhow, he doesn’t want his widowed mom to date. Or does he?

Destiny, a thirteen-year-old control freak who feels alienated in her messy, haphazard family, helps her adopted best friend Jil when she finds her birth mother and decides to have a relationship with her. By the author of Out of Order.

Elizabeth, also known as Iz, enjoys living in an eccentric and extremely chaotic household with her laid-back father, trendy stepmother, three rambunctious stepbrothers, and a strange assortment of pets, but feels guilty about not wanting to live with her straight-laced mother.

Nick tries to maintain his sense of integrity as he works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new stepmother and little 'dorky' stepbrother, and deal with peer pressure from his friends.

A woman professional golfer relates her life on the pro circuit, her rise to fame, and her induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame, and offers practical tips on improving one's golf game