Waiting for Normal, Leslie Connor

Leave it to Addie to make the most out of living in a trailer right under a train overpass in a sea of asphalt near a toxic dump site. But while she finds amazing friends at the mini-mart next door, Addie knows it's not normal for her mother to disappear for days. And she gets a distressingly brief glimpse of what normal might feel like when she visits her ex-stepfather and her half sisters in their new home, with their new mother. How can she go back to eating canned soup in an empty trailer after that? * My buddies at Kepler's introduced this gem to me and they did not steer me wrong. This is not another "oh my life is so hard" book, but keep the tissues nearby just in case.