Dear Diary, Am I Really Thirteen?

Ellen Reids is not your normal thirteen-year-old girl; or at least that’s how she feels. She has always felt that she was different from everyone else in a very unsatisfactory way, a fact that has not been helped by her “best friend” Brenda Fields. Brenda is an emotionally, and sometimes physically, abusive friend. Ellen realizes she must get away from Brenda if she wants to live a more normal and happy life as a teenage girl. Unfortunately, letting go of Brenda becomes the least of Ellen’s problems.