Sharon Creech became the first author to simultaneously win two of the most prestigious literary awards in the field of children's literature: the Newbery Medal (USA) and the Carnegie Medal (UK). An English teacher gave terribly boring assignments for the holidays: write a daily diary and read The Odyssey! Therefore, thirteen-year-old Mary Lou could not even think that anything interesting would happen this summer... But a cousin who came from another state turned the Finney family’s house, which was always shaking, upside down! “Chaos is normal” - Mary Lou’s summer diary Finny. This is a story about first love, about friendship, about life and death, about how difficult it is to hold hands correctly when you are thirteen, and about what first kisses taste like.