At 13, best friends Lorna Markham and Scotti Wheeler have concluded that they were born to the wrong mothers. Scotti s mother wants Scotti to cut out sweets from her diet and be more like Lorna, who s thin and athletic; Lorna s mom wishes Lorna could apply herself to her work like Scotti, who s writing her first novel. Each girl convinces her parents of the need for her to move into the other girl s home, claiming that it will prepare her for life as a foreign exchange student later on. Once the switch is complete, the girls regret it almost instantly. But their parents seem to have adjusted perfectly: the Wheelers are taking Lorna to Hawaii with them; the Markhams have made an appointment for Scotti to show her novel to a publisher. Misunderstandings abound, but the girls are back in their respective rooms by the end of the book, completely persuaded that having the wrong mother is better than having someone else s mother. Haynes s best friends are funny and typically 13, but parts of the book are contrived, and the parents come off as daffy and insensitive.

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