Emma absolutely hates being eleven. She has helped look after her twin brothers since they were born, but she can't baby-sit for real until she is twelve. Eleven comes with so many complications. There are the corrective soles, hidden in a mailbox each morning on her way to catch the school bus, and if she is cranky, her mother blames it on the fact that she will soon have her first monthly period. Emma decides that she just isn't going to have one...