Tori's Mixed-Up Journal

Tori's life is too complicated. Her Dad and his girlfriend Erika elope. Mom is dating her boss, Rob Wiley. Her step sib Ashley makes two dates on the same night with a basketball star and Michael, Tori's secret crush. She begs Tori to take her place with Michael. Tori can't resist and goes out with him on a magical date. Tori and her best friend Amanda can't wait to get belly button piercings. hey go to a tattoo parlor and have the piercings done with hilarious results. Rob threatens Tori that her life won't be so pleasant once he is her stepdad. He snoops through her things and finds the kit she uses on her new piercing and says he'll tell her mother. Tori realizes that Rob is dangerous, but can she convince her mother that he's not right for her? And what about Kai, Tori's jogging partner who gives her her first kiss? Can Tori ever learn to cope with two blended families in her crazy mixed-up world? Award winning Canadian author Estelle Salata lives in Hamilton on the shores of Lake Ontario. She has published four children's books and four young adult novels. Her best selling novel Mice at Centre Ice became an animated film, "Tales of the Mouse Hockey League" which aired on CBC Television. www.estellesalata.ca A review of Blue Ice, the author's young adult hockey novel states: "An extremely well written book on all levels-style, appeal, characterization, reality, moral choices and consequences." Resource Links, the Year's Best 2001.