Her repeated disfigurements do attract Jake Harrison's attention, but only because he's totally cracked up at her seemingly endless series of daily disasters.īut Rory Swenson has her own maturity, a kind of empathy which helps her really see into other's feelings, and a good head on her shoulders. She's a sight for sore eyes, all right, but the sore eyes are her own. Trying to remove her new contacts leaves her with a scratched cornea, and just as her face and ear are returning to normal, she has to show up in class wearing an eye patch, subjecting herself to endless and annoying "Avasts!" and "Yarrrs!" In the final affront to her person, shaving and waxing her legs leaves her bleeding, blistered, and patchy with bandaids. Rory hurries back to the mall for makeup and ear piercing to make herself look good in hopes of catching the gorgeous Jake's eye.īut, as the old saying goes, "when you get what you want, you don't want it." Rory soon learns that she's allergic to "all-natural" makeup and gold earrings, and finds herself having to go to school with her face swollen like a balloon and one ear the size of an baby elephant's. Things have got to go better, she hopes, because Jake Harrison, the 14-year-old celebrity actor is actually filming a movie at her actual school, and Rory and Annabelle are chosen to be extras. Undeterred, Rory resolutely continues to work through her list. Rory gets the pet of her dreams, a rabbit named Kyle R., at the pet shop and, and looking forward to daily snuggles in her room, agrees to pay for his supplies, only to discover that he insists on nearly smothering her nightly by sleeping on her face. It's just a minor bump in the road when she loses her new phone before she gets out of the mall and then drops the replacement in the toilet.
Never mind that her parents give her a choice of only three stodgy cellphones and then make her pay for the insurance at last she can be in the IM inner circle at school. When the great day comes Rory plunges joyfully into her new-found privileges. But her parents promise that when she's twelve she will be allowed to do everything on her When-I'm Twelve list and more-things like having her own house key, buying her own clothes, doing homework without supervision, and riding in the front seat.
Everyone else is wearing lip gloss, shaving their legs, and texting like crazy.
Rory Swenson feels that her overprotective parents' limits have made her an oddity among her friends.
Go to the mall with Annabelle and no parents.
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