The 3rd Volume in the When the Jonquils Bloom Again book, this book is four short books: Scolosis, Puberty, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and My Chiropractor; The Paper; The Algebra Note; and Cheerleading Camp, each can be read alone as a separate story building the middle years of Sharon's youth. Sharon 12-16, coming of age, a mixed race, working class girl stringing beans, becoming a cheer leader, dealing with Scoliosis, enemas for irritable bowel syndrome, paddlings for school misadventures, and her first boyfriend, this is real life. Painful and exploding with faith, hope, and love, the goodness of God, the richness of becoming, a book for those who have lived, remembered, and keep living, a portrait of a time past, simpler, closer to the earth, more filled with family, friends, and love than now common, a time that will come again, and always is in the hearts of those who love.