Lost and Found

This week I decided to chose a book from the library at my job that my twelve year old daughter and I could read togethr so that I can help her become more interested in reading.  It did not take very muc to persuade her to read it once I told her we would take turns reading every other chapter to eachother.  She was skeptical of the book until I hyped it up the way the librarian did for me.  It is a teenage suspense story.  So far we ave been introduced to a very quiet and reserved high school girl named, Darcy.  Darcy has a tough lifestyle.  Her mother works at a hospital and is rarely at home.  Her sick and possibly dying grandmother lives with them so that she can have the care she needs.  Darcy takes care of her younger rebellious sister, Jamee, because Darcy is a straight A student, and her sister is a party animal and doesn't take anything seriously.  Darcy's school life is sad for her.  She does not fit in with the other children, and they tease her and treat her like an outcast because they think she is stuck up.  The truth is she is very shy, and very mature for her age, so she is not interested in normal teenage activities.  She was paired with a semi-popular vuluptious girl to work on a project for her class, and the girl accused er of looking down at her and told her EXACTLY what she and everyone else thinks about her.  Darcy went home, and cried hard to her grandmother because she knew the girl was telling the truth about her being an outcast; she has no friends.