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YA
SideStreets series.
During the summer after ninth grade, fourteen-year-old Cori and her best friend were supposed to get makeovers. But then Cori's mom is diagnosed with breast cancer, and suddenly that other stuff isn't important. Raw emotion (verging on melodrama) drives the narrative; excerpts from a journal kept by Cori's mom provide a mature point of view.