Marty Bryant was a skinny girl in her eleventh year - soon to be twelve.She had last year met her father for the first time after Marty, with the help of adults, found her father who came to see her.The book tells, with humor, the events that happened in Marty's life in her eleventh year.The setting is in a small town built on the banks of the Mississippi River.Read of Marty's escapades turned into adventuresAlthough some names are fictional, the stories are based on the author's true childhood experiences.