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15-year-old Kristin Fernando's entire life is spiraling downward. Her parents, Tilly and Scott, had recently ended their 19-year marriage due to unforeseeable circumstances. To lessen its impact on Kristin's life, they are sending her to stay with her father's cousins Tybalt and Cassandra MacPherson and their children 15-year-old Velvet, 14-year-old Nader, 11-year-old Jacquala, and baby Siegfried. Kristin thinks that she did something wrong to deserve this karmic punishment.
And to make matters worse, the MacPherson family lives in the city of McDermitt, Arizona (which is almost across the U.S. map and far from Shawneetown, Florida, where the Fernando family lives). Kristin isn't too thrilled with the move or the relatives. For starters, the MacPherson family is a rock-and-Goth clan that is so weird that even Ozzy Osborne would be afraid of them. Tybalt works as a Computer Security Specialist at Security, Inc during the day, while his wife Cassandra spies on her "normal" neighbors. The children provide most of the action, from Velvet's dreams of being a fashion designer, Nader wanting to be the next Michael Jackson, Jacquala's random activities and Siegfried being a baby. Kristin is sure that she doesn't belong with the MacPherson family at all, not with her "normal" upbringing and even more "normal" goals and aspirations.
But when her mother gives her a diary, Kristin decides that a diary is the last thing that she wants. After all, she is living in a world where Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and blogging exists and having private thoughts is nonexistent. Yet she manages to use the diary to express how she really feels about her parents' divorce and her leaving her friends and moving to McDermitt, staying with her cousins, and having to start over in a new school and make new friends.
How will she be able to balance her online life with her offline life and get along with her cousins? You'll find out when you read this book.