and the one boy who matters most has been next door all along. After a serious incident on Lukes farm, Ricki Jo realizes that being a true friend is more important than being popular. Caught between being a country girl and a wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is: someone who doesnt care what people think and who wouldnt let a good-looking guy walk all over her. Shes on top of the world, even though her best friend and neighbor, Luke, say he misses plain old Ricki Jo. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new sophisticated clothes, and strikes up an unlikely flirtation with the freshman classs resident bad boy. Book Synopsis Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmers daughter roots and and fit in with the popular crowd at her small-town high school.

Caught between being a country girl and a wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is. (Feb.About the Book Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, is eager to shed her farmers daughter roots and and fit in with the popular crowd at her small-town high school. A sweet, by-the-numbers romance with a substantial dose of corny humor. Painful manure episodes aside, Heasley also offers plenty of Texas boys, football parties, and a rodeo as city girl turns country girl and learns some lessons about family and good old-fashioned fun. This premise results in a predictable story, as Heasley dishes out one smalltown cliché after another in an effort to deliver some tension.

The moral of Heasley's story is one familiar to any number of romantic comedies on page and on screen: namely, that smalltown life is every bit as rewarding as the bustle of the city if given half a chance. Corrinne is horrified to trade her ritzy, snobby, Gossip Girl–style life for the slow-paced, carbohydrate-rich world of her grandparents.

Corrinne's father loses his job and moves to Dubai to find work, leaving her mother behind to sell their Manhattan apartment while 16-year-old Corrinne and her younger brother, Tripp, head to Broken Spoke, Tex., her mother's long (and best) forgotten hometown. The recession hits Corrinne Corcoran's wealthy family hard in Heasley's first novel.

Where i belong by gwendolyn heasley