Book Summary: Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her “real” parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by telling lies.I have to say, I did not like this book most of the way through it. I found Ant (Antonia) to be a real whiner. But I was comparing her life to mine and later I decided that wasn’t quite a fair comparison. When I was in the sixth and seventh grades I moved and changed schools six times! That was in the day before cell phones, computers, and the Internet. When I left friends behind, our only hope was to keep in touch writing letters. But most of the time, our friendships just came to an end.* My dad was in the Air Force and we didn’t have any choice about making those moves. That’s where Ant and I are different. Her father seemed to get bored with his job and then quit and move on. And I couldn’t understand why he’d move the whole family when he’d be gone for a month at a time anyway. And then there was Ant’s relationship with her mother. No one was happy there. At least, she was open to the suggestions made by the art teacher, Just Carol. Finally, Ant and her mom really talked and came to an understanding about each other. They discovered that they had more in common than they thought and that they could get along. They even worked things out so the dad wouldn’t uproot their family again.
*Since originally writing this summary, I've joined the Facebook crowd and found my best friends from the 9th grade! Technology is amazing!
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