

However, at the beginning of summer, a wave of wildness overcomes Natalie - starting with streaking her hair blue and continuing to lying to her mother. Natalie planned to hang out with her friends (Nina and Kirby), help out at her mother's vet clinic, and basically continue to be the obedient daughter she has always been. Natalie lives with her control-freak mother, her cake-baking grandmother, and four dogs (including Fufu, her cement chinese Foo dog that is supposed to bring her luck).įor Natalie, the summer before her junior year of high school wasn't supposed to be different from any other summer. She can name practically every breed of dog there is, yet can't fit in at a party. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Kaplan is better around dogs than people.
