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  <default_description>Addie is waiting for normal.

But Addie's mom has an all-or-nothing approach to life: a food fiesta or an empty pantry, jubilation or gloom, her way or no way.

All or nothing never adds up to normal. 

All or nothing can't bring you all to home, which is exactly where Addie longs to be, with her half sisters, every day. 

In spite of life's twists and turns, Addie remains optimistic. Someday, maybe, she'll find normal.

Leslie Connor has created an inspiring novel about one girl's giant spirit. waiting for normal is a heartwarming gem.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been hearing great things about this book, so perhaps my hopes were too high. This book irked me in the same way as <em>The Higher Power of Lucky</em> did: cutesy, too-good-to-be-true, innocent kids in hard-knock lives just drive me nuts. Addie is on the brink of puberty, has severe dyslexia, and lives ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19811882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story was very cute and very positive. Addy has a ridiculous amount of positive energy and a great attitude about her tough life. The writing is fairly tight (amid some weak editing), and the story line itself does not have holes I have found in so many other YA books recently. Although I am no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44483545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Children's fiction / realistic fiction; ages 10-14. A moving story about 12-year-old Addie's attempts to make the best of her new living situation as she and her dysfunctional mom (she reminds me a lot of the mother in Jeannette Walls' <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7445.The_Glass_Castle_A_Memoir">The Glass Castle</a>) move into a trailer following a divorce. Addie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45465888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Addie is just trying to find normal.  She finds the positive in negative situations...just as she tries to convince her neglectful mother that living in the little trailer under the train tracks is not such a bad thing.  They ended up here after her bipolar mother (although this diagnosis is never m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30799960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little gem of a novel will tug at your heartstrings. Twelve-year-old Addie lives in a trailer in Schenectady, NY and her family is &quot;hard to follow- like a road that keeps taking twists and turns.&quot; Addie's mother divorced Addie's ex-stepfather, Dwight, two years earlier and Dwight has ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30338001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a copy, with the HTML restored as much as possible, of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com/105979.html&gt;LJ write-up&lt;/a&gt;.<br/><br/>I've just got a new award category, thanks to  this book: book I loved which made me most deeply relieved not to be a professiona...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21927795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sweet story of enduring hardships and crazy family with endless optimism.  Little Addie has apparently hit bottom: her flake's-flake of a mother lost everything in the divorce except Addie.  They now live in a junky trailer underneath a train overpass in Schnectady.  Mommers surfs the Web all day,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20607393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book on audio and the recording was excellent.  Addie keeps waiting for her family to return to &quot;normal&quot; but the reader realizes quickly that this is unlikely to happen.  After her mother and stepfather divorce, Addie's little sisters go with Dwight while she and her mot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33845051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Addie's life has recently been turned completely upside-down with the recent divorce of her mother and step-father Dwight. While her two younger sisters are going to be living with him, she and her mom are moving into a trailer purchased by Dwight for them in Schenectady, New York. <br/><br/>Mothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44963816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recieved this book as a gift from my mom, and it seems a lot like books like &quot;Ida B.&quot;, &quot;Becoming Naomi Leon&quot;, &quot;Esperanza Rising&quot;, etc., just books about children or young adults facing tough choices and lives and disastrous tragedies.<br/>There was no tragedy in this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59039191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Waiting for Normal is about a girl and her family. The girl's name is Addie. Addie's ex-stepdad bought their mom and her a trailer on the side of a road. Addie and her mom are almost broke and Addie's mom won't get a job. Addie's  trailer is parked right next to a gas station.  Addie makes friends w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78593348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the good side, she kept me reading til the end. For a long while I was thinking it was a good book, but as I neared the end and started thinking about things, I became quite bothered by it. Then when I did finish, I was disappointed. The book is quite a bit more political than it first comes acro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60030763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Addie is patiently waiting for a normal life, not all the twists and turns she gets as she lives with her mom.  Life was so much better with her stepfather Dwight and the littles; her sisters, Brynna and Katie but Mommers wouldn't allow Addie to stay with them.  As part of the divorce, Dwight settle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73444216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderfully beautiful story about 6th grader Addison trying to survive a harsh life with her scatterbrained neglectful mother who we can infer is probably a manic-depressive. Addison still maintains a strong tie to her stepfather and two half sisters and she tries to negotiate life between two ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50741521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I would like my daughter to read because of the strength of its character Addie, who deals with the difficulties of her life without self-pity and who continues to love her (probably) bipolar mother in spite of her bad treatment at her hands.<br/><br/>She is &quot;waiting&quot; for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48798170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Suggested)<br/><br/>Addie has taken many twists and turns in her lifetime. Her mother and stepfather divorced a few years ago and now she is living in a trailer with her mother. Her stepfather, Dwight, lives hours away with her two sisters and his new girlfriend. Addie makes friends, lands a part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41784937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is exactly the kind of book that people think ALWAYS wins the Newbery Medal, but in fact, almost never does.  It's a quintessential problem novel: plucky kid who loves her disaster of a mom, zany adult characters who are the girl's caring friends (bonus if one of them is hugely fat, which is th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42558486">more...</a>]]></body>
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