Flossie is a likable character who discovers the meaning of true friendship, suffers hardship with aplomb, and learns some important life lessons along the way. When he encounters Rose, a fortune-teller and cotton-candy maker with a traveling carnival, he's met his true match. After numerous trials that end in near homelessness, Flossie's father finally puts the divorce behind him. She loses her superficial and status-conscious friends, but makes friends with Susan, whose background is more like hers. Her life changes drastically when she starts going to school looking unkempt and smelling of her father's greasy-spoon café. When Flossie's mom and stepdad move to Sydney for six months, Flossie convinces her mother to let her stay with her loving but inept father in London. Overweight, depressed, and financially hard up, he is his own worst enemy. Flossie's dad, however, is close to 40 and hasn't gotten it together. School Library Journal Gr 4-7Flossie's mom is remarried and has a prosperous life with her husband and baby.
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