"Originally dreading the one-hundred-day journal-writing assignment given by her new sixth-grade teacher, Gene Tucks eventually warms up to sharing her thoughts about being the new girl at school, St. Bernard puppies, and her family."
"Gene Tucks, a sixth grader who moves to a new town with her family, is given a hundred-day journal writing project at school, and she starts telling her new "listener," Toni, about moving into an empty apartment behind a gas station with her father and finding a St. Bernard with three pups."
"When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves south, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a "nobody". But what she dreads most is the hundred-day journal-writing assignment her teacher has given the class. But little by little, Dear Nobody becomes Dear Somebody, who evolves into Dear Toni. And bit by bit, Toni, a good listener, becomes a best friend to whom Gene tells everything."@en
"When sixth-grader Gene Tucks moves south, she dreads being the new kid at school and almost everything else about her life as a "nobody". But what she dreads most is the hundred-day journal-writing assignment her teacher has given the class. But little by little, Dear Nobody becomes Dear Somebody, who evolves into Dear Toni. And bit by bit, Toni, a good listener, becomes a best friend to whom Gene tells everything."

Dear Toni