It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World

Standard Danzinger fare - teenage girls embroiled in family crisis - but, as ever, delivered with a generous helping of readability, accessible characterisation and a sufficiently respectable amount of thought-provoking material to merit a place on library shelves or in lower school book boxes. Rosie and Phoebe are best friends. Phoebe's father and Rosie's mother fall in love and all four move into a new home together. Complications abound - Phoebe returns briefly to live with her mother in New York and Rosie is strongly attracted to Phoebe's cousin, Jason. Plenty of teenage interest here and one of the book's strengths is that it explores the situations beyond the disappointment of a hollow happy ending.