As Ever, Gordy — Mary Downing Hahn

Life wasn't fair.  As soon as you thought you were safe, someone pulled the rug out from under you.  And there you were, back on the train, going to the very place you thought you'd left for good.

Gordy couldn't be less happy about moving back to his old hometown of College Hill, Maryland, where everybody knows his family's troubled history.  In North Carolina, Gordy's life was finally on the right track.  Back in College Hill, Gordy and his sister, June, must move into a cramped apartment with their brother stu and his new family.  The principal at Gordy's school has it in for him, his pals encourage him to cause trouble, and his old rival, Elizabeth, can't see that he's changed.  The whole world seems to be against Gordy.  Is Gordy destined to slip back into his old trouble-making ways for good?