First Wedding, Once Removed

Pokie, 13, and her older brother Gib, absolutely love airplanes. They both dream about becoming a pilot someday. They were always hanging out together and going to watch the planes. Sometimes they had a tagalong-Junior Hollinger, their next door neighbor. Gib goes off to collage out of state and comes home for the rest of his Christmas, but he leaves to go to Nell's house, his girlfriend, for the rest of his Christmas break. After Gib comes back a couple of months later with his girlfriend, Poke feels a little jealous because she thinks he is ignoring her. After Nell stays at their home for a while she finally gets used to her and eases up a little. When they finally decide to get married Nell had a fight with her parents. They said they weren't coming to the wedding. They got married and Gib gave Pokie an airplane ticket to Columbia, Missouri, so she could be the first one to come and visit them at school.

In the beginng of the book everyone is running around getting ready for a wedding. It tells you the characters, but you don't know who they are until the second chapter. One of the main characters is Pokie, a thirteen year old girl who hates her real name, Alwild. She and her brother, Gib, have a very good relationship with each other. Pokie andGib both want to be pilots when they grow up. Pokie is also getting ready to start high school. Another character is Gib, Pokie's brother. He is getting ready to go to college. Nell, a girl that Gib meets in Political Science, starts out being his girlfriend but at the end they get married. Junior Hollinger is one of Pokies friends. He just started the 8th grade. He has been feeling left out because he doesn't know what it is like to be in high school.