I came to like both girls and the friendship they built. I could understand her worry about her mother and could also understand why parents might want to protect a twelve-year-old by not telling her what was happening. I thought her relationship with her Grandpa Howe was especially good. I liked her caring relationship with her parents and I liked her delight in spending time with her grandparents. I had a little more sympathy when she was thinking about the fight she had with her former best friend Fiona which sent her looking for new friends. I had a hard time empathizing with Carrie's obsession with some friends who didn't seem very nice or very kind. But the tensions grow between the girls and they spend a lot of the trip not talking. When the girls can forget about their other worries, they do have fun touring Hearst Castle, going to an amusement park, and doing other touristy things. What if her mother has cancer and is going to die? She is trying very hard to hide her fears from her grandparents and pretend that she is having a great time on their trip. She has been having lots of headaches and Lana is certain that her parents are keeping something from her. Lana is trying to have fun but she is also very worried about her mother.

Carrie is too busy trying to keep in touch with her new group of friends. Carrie isn't interested in being friends. Lana thought that they had a chance to become good friends and was looking forward to the trip. They met for the first time at their grandparents' wedding. The two are thrown together on a road trip with their honeymooning grandparents. But as Fiona navigates a summer of big changes, she learns more about herself-and friendship-than she ever thought possible.This is a story told in alternate chapters by Lana and Carrie. Life without a best friend is confusing, scary, maybe impossible. Now, for some reason, she’s ignoring Fiona. Even worse: Cassie was there, and she didn’t do anything to stop it. Until Fiona’s diary is stolen by the most popular girls at school, and her most secret thoughts are read out loud on the bus. They love each other in spite of their (many) differences, and even though Cassie cares a little too much about being popular, Fiona can’t imagine life without her. No one else listens or makes Fiona laugh like Cassie, and that meant everything when Fiona’s parents were divorcing.

In this heartwarming companion to Drive Me Crazy, twelve-year-old Fiona Coppleton is living a middle schooler’s worst nightmare: her diary was made public and her best friend is partly to blame.įiona and Cassie are supposed to be best friends forever.

Drive Me Crazy by Terra Elan McVoy