Starring Francie O'Leary Book

I read this in about a day. Miracle baby, I thought it had heart defects or such but no the mother had cancer when she was carring Rebekah. Now the baby is here, life is really hard for 9 year old Isabel. She is tired of being a "big girl." She wants her mama and her old life again but as we know you really cannot go back. Things begin to climax when some girls at Isabel's school begin to bully her and she doesn't handle it in the best way, but read the book and put yourself in Isabel's shoes. What would you have done. It is also about friendship and who is really your friend and sometimes it's hard to make new friends and parents just don't understand sometimes.
I enjoyed the references to towns in North Carolina; Charlotte, Rockingham, etc.

The author, Emily Smith Pierce grew up in SC and earned her degree from Chapel Hill. I met her in September of 2008 but just now picked up the book to read and I'm really glad I did.