This was okay. I'm glad I read it, but it's not going to be a favorite. The parts I liked were the puns and how evocative it was of my own adolescence. The parts I didn't like included the unrealistic relationships the parents have, the cardboard materialistic mom, and the fact that it's an Issue Book. I liked it well enough that I'm going to read the sequel next. 2.486 stars. ( )

This book is a realistic fiction book about a girl name Pheobe whose parents didn't start getting along until they got a divorce when she was thirteen. Now that she's fourteen she spends the weekend with her father in woodstock New York ,and commutes on the bus called the ''Divorce Express'' for weekends with her mother in New York city. There is no art in this book. The reading level is for sixth graders. The curricular connection is realistic fiction.