The Sorta Sisters

Anna Casey likes living in North Florida with biology teacher Miss Johnetteher latest foster mother. Best of all Miss J wants to adopt Anna. Still it ishard gro... » 

Anna Casey likes living in North Florida with biology teacher Miss Johnetteher latest foster mother. Best of all Miss J wants to adopt Anna. Still it ishard grow into a new family a new life and a new school all at onceespecially when you?ve been rootless nearly all of your life. Mica Delano likesliving aboard her sailboat the Martina which is docked at a marina in theFlorida Keys. Best of all the marinas owners whom she calls Aunt Emma andUncle Bert try hard to make up for the sometimes inattentive parenting shegets from her marine biologist father. But Mica fears that her restless fatherwill soon pull anchor taking them away from the safety of Berts Marina. Achance correspondence between these two girls separated by the length of thestate of Florida becomes a flourishing friendship. As they share their love ofnature each helps the other cope with uncertainty and loneliness and profoundchange. When her father gets a grant that will last a year Mica enrolls inpublic school for the first time since first grade and suffers the agony oftrying to fit in. When her beloved foster mother becomes serious about asuitor Anna must make room in her heart for a possible rival. In the end Annaand Mica save each other and themselves with hope humor and a shared love ofthe natural world. «