Delia's new friend is not what she seems
Each day of Delia's first week of high school, her parents ask her the same question: Did you make any friends today? Finally, the answer is yes. Her name is Amandine, and she is the most exciting person in town. An artist, a dancer, and a teller of tall tales, she has enough charm to make Delia forget her loneliness. Like Delia, Amandine is an outsider—a city girl with too much personality...

Danny lives in her mother's world of make-believe, but all she wants is the truth. Dandelion Finzimer's mother has always wanted to get her daughter on the stage. Mrs. Finzimer is an actress - aspiring, anyway - who makes a living teaching and doing commercials, but lives for the applause she earns as a member of the Bellmont Players. Danny has no talent for acting - she couldn't even play Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker - but whether she realizes...