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SYNOPSIS
In this poignant, realistic, contemporary YA by a state master list star, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Gayle Forman, a young songwriter builds a substitute family with her friends in place of the broken family she grew up with.

A hip high school girl who loves music, writes songs, and is desperate for a ukelele, learns to her shock that her father did not abandon her years ago and has been trying to keep in touch. She begins to investigate him, only to discover that he has a new life with a new family, including the perfect stepdaughter, a girl who Minerva despises.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Amato grew up in Libertyville, Illinois. She and her husband Ivan Amato (a science writer) have two sons. Mary studied special education and dance at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. In graduate school, she studied fiction writing and poetry at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.