TUNE IN ANYTIME
Caroline B. Cooney
Laurel Leaf
Fiction
ISBN: 0440227984
160 pages

Sophie Olivette doesn't have anything against soap operas, she just wishes one wasn't being played out in her own house. Two months ago her family was fairly normal: Dad, Daniel, Mom, Edith (who's a bit out there) and best of all, crabby older sister, Marley, who is away at college. Then comes Persia, Marley's former model roommate who has turned Dad into a self-centered gibbering idiot incapable of hearing his daughter's distress. Mom is no help, she's so busy searching for inner peace at her own personal Stonehenge as to be completely oblivious to anything unless it takes place on a plane located somewhere near Nirvana (not the rock group). Suddenly Sophie realizes she is the only adult in this drama and it's up to her to save the family before her whole world falls apart.

TUNE IN ANYTIME is a hilarious look at divorce, despite how the plot line sounds. Sophie learns that although sometimes your family can let you down, you can get through it with the help of your friends and a really cute boy with a normal family. And -- there is the special added attraction of a chance to win a trip to visit the set of NBC soap "Passions." Just send your name, address, telephone number, date of birth and a paragraph about why you should be chosen to visit the set. Or you can pick up a form when you go to purchase the book.

   --- Reviewed by Cassia Van Arsdale

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