Snail Mail No More
Paula Danziger
 Snail Mail address. After a year of snail mail following Tara*Starr's move to Ohio, the long-distance friends are ready for the more immediate gratification of e-mail: with e-mail, it doesn't take 3 or 4 days for a letter to get to the other. Therefore, they start to have an even closer relationship. Those two girls send emails about their fast changing lives. Tara* Starr is getting used to having a baby sister in the house, and how a social studies project ruined her relationship with her boyfriend Bart. Meanwhile Elizabeth's father is coming back to the dispointment of Elizabeth,her mother, and her little sister Emma. They face problems like Tara* Starr's sister premature birth. But the hardest of all was Elizabeth's father's fatal car crash. In the end, Tara* Starr's sister Scarlett was fine, and Elizabeth understanding that another chapter in her life was closed, but another chapter was beginning. Both girls' friendship improved. They were in 8th grade at that time.