A review by shirleytupperfreeman
Meet Me Halfway by Anika Fajardo

Mattie's mom has just married a wonderful man with two younger boys. Which means 12 year old Mattie has to leave all her friends and community to move from Minnesota to California. On top of that the school schedules don't jive, so Mattie has to start 7th grade a couple weeks late. On top of that, a girl in her new school, Mercedes, looks remarkably like her. Mattie likes to live under the radar and Mercedes likes the limelight... and doesn't like the fact that someone, who just might be her sister, has moved to town. When the two girls realize they have the same father, that neither of them have ever met him, and that he lives in Columbia but happens to be a visiting professor in a nearby town, things get a bit madcap. Fortunately, things work out and everybody grows up a bit along the way.