now - Friend or fiend? - Sunk by the bell - If you're going to lie to yourself, be convincing - Reservations for one - Out on a limb - Defying gravity - Order on the court! - Late-night surprise - Sinking feelings and other plumbing problems - When you care enough to send the very worst - Summon the book eater - Ironing the wrinkles in - Mind over matter - Back against the wall - Pals spelled backwards - Playing with fire - On the line - The giving. Murphy's big idea - Walk off loss - Irish abyss - Must.
Lucky girl - The first step - Orange you glad you're here? - Are you there, God? It's me, Carley - I should have licked the anthill - Lettuce pray - Upward and all around - Wake up and smell the apple juice - What a clip - A genie, fresh rolls, and a penguin - High tops girl from the planet Oblivion - Thou art a wing nut - You have the right to remain silent - There's no crying in baseball - Birds of a feather - If I throw a stick, will you go away? - Bad to worse to unthinkable - Long night - Paige turner - Wilting Chamberlain - Murphy's Law - House of mirrors - Truth hurts, huh? - Bagged - Mrs.
The backstory reveals that one night Dennis blamed Carley when her mother fell in the kitchen."After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love". In Las Vegas, she was on a basketball team and went to school however, after the move to Connecticut, her mother didn’t enroll her in school, saying that she’d learn more directly from “living life” (23).Ĭarley feels that her mother chose poorly in marrying a new husband, Dennis. Carley loves books she reads frequently and enjoys the library. But she never expected a betrayal that would land her in a foster care. Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, she's learned to be tough. Consequently, Carley displays a quick wit, stubbornness, and a tendency to talk back. 27,753 Ratings Twelve-year-old Carley Connors can take a lot. In addition, her mother encouraged her to show “strength”: She condoned and even encouraged young Carley’s impertinent remarks to teachers, for example, and would laugh at Carley when she cried.
She believes that she’s streetwise and “tough”: Her single mother taught her to keep emotions locked inside and offered her little tenderness and no sense of stability or security, though the two had fun times together. Carley’s characterization intertwines with her experiences.
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