Katie Nash--the beloved heroine of Elizabeth Berg's previous novels
Durable Goods and Joy School--is thirteen years old in 1961, and
she's facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has enlisted her in
two care-taking jobs--baby-sitting for the rambunctious Wexler boys and,
equally challenging, looking after Mrs. Randolph, her elderly, bedridden
neighbor. To make matters worse, Katie has been forcibly inducted into
the "loser" Girl Scout troop, compliments of her only new friend
Cynthia's controlling mother. Her only saving grace is a trip to her
childhood hometown in Texas, to visit her best friend Cherylanne. But
people and places change--and Cherylanne is no exception. When an act of
betrayal leaves Katie wondering just what friends are really for, she
learns to rely on the only one left she can trust: herself.
Full of the joys, anguish, and innocence of American adolescence, True
to Form is a story sure to make listeners remember and reflect on their
own moments of discovery and self-definition.