Books with title Just For You! What Do You Know? Snow!

Do you know - or remember - what it's like being a kid with too much going on in your life? Do you want to know - or do you remember - what life was like in an American town, B.B. (Before Beatles)? Here's the uplifting, heartbreaking story of smart-alecky, 12-year-old Carmen Cathcart, her big messy family, and her dreams. Just for you to know - and always remember. "Especially true and tender" School Library Journal"I love this book and its people, who run and walk and stumble right off the pages into your head and heart. They are tough-tender Carmen Cathcart and her "bizwang" messed-up family... There's heartbreak and joy here, and a full-circle ending that leaves you close to tears and cheering." Barbara Robinsonauthor of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever"This coming-of-age tale is wise, funny, and bittersweet. Carmen is a wonderful heroine, and her struggle to hold onto her family without sacrificing her dream of being an artist is one any reader will relish." Children's Literature

As her family noisily slurps root beers at a drive-in stop, Carmen longs to be invisible -- especially when Clark and Larry shout out the news about Mama. Can it get any worse than this? Carmen imagines she's been kidnapped -- how else did she wind up as one of the Cathcarts. . . . At almost thirteen she's the oldest, with five noisy little brothers, a dreamy mom, and a sometimes reckless dad. When she's a famous artist, she'll get away from them all!This wonderfully honest and bighearted first novel mirrors life. Carmen Cathcart becomes a friend as, with a voice that is deeply moving yet often funny, she shares the importance of holding on to your dreams and what it means to be a family.