And Featuring Bailey Wellcom as the Biscuit

Status: Available

Page Count: 280

Edition: Second

ISBN: 1-978-1-886383-88-3

SRP (USD): $14.99

Size: Trim plus trade paperback

Cover: Steve Feldman

Genre(s): Young Adult

Homepage: Peggy Durbin

We have rated this book Pre-Teen

(NEW TOWN, COWS, KISSING,

FRIENDS, BARN FIRE, HONESTY)

"I sure as heck didn't get much sleep that night. I kept trying to piece everything together, like it was a giant puzzle. Some things started to make sense to me -- like how they looked at each other and how shy they were with each other at first. I started feeling really stupid and naïve about it, if you want to know the truth. Why didn't I see it before? The way Melody looked at my mom and how they became friends so fast, the way they held each other after the manure fire, the quiet way they talked together. And now this. Kissing."

Twelve-year-old Bailey Wellcom thinks that life will be Snore City when she and her mother move from Phoenix, Arizona, to the little village of Lucien, New Mexico. But when she meets her best friend Stevie Z and a cattlewoman named Melody Callahan, life gets pretty exciting for Bailey and her mom!

"Peggy Durbin has written a really funny and charming book about a twelve year old moving to a small town after the friendly divorce of her parents. Bailey Wellcom learns all kinds of important new things and just one of them is how to deal with the fact that her mom is gay. This is not a preachy book nor is it trying to recruit anyone to a cause. The focus is on Bailey and her great sense of humor. The honesty and straightforward talks between Bailey and her mom, Bailey and her dad, and Bailey and others around her (like her new best friend Stevie Z) are dead-on and truly helpful if you're trying to talk to pre-teens about any kind of difference."

-- Gina G., Reader from Port Gamble, WA

"Bailey is a thoroughly likable narrator -- and a typical twelve-year-old. Confused at first, she meets the challenge of finding her own special place in the world by confronting misconceptions and ignorance in those around her."

-- The Brilliant Review

By This Author

And Featuring Bailey Wellcom as the Biscuit