Todd and Amy Davidson may be twins, but they're completeopposites - Todd is organized and is the family "engineer,"while Amy is outgoing and has been dubbed the "poet." So itwould seem that for a fifth-grade economics project, Toddwould come up with a master invention, and Amy would havea blast with her best friends as partners. To their surprise, Toddcan't think of a single idea, and Amy gets stuck working withthe class crybaby. Then Todd begins writing poetry . . . But thisis nothing compared to the switch their parents have made.Their father has been unemployed for months and their motherhas started to work at a crafts store. Now there's never enoughfood in the house, everybody is always on edge, and whenAmy's friends come over after school, they find Mr. Davidson, uncombed and unshaven, in his ratty old bathrobe. Will lifeever return to normal?With chapters that alternate between Todd's and Amy's pointsof view, this novel is a realistic and sometimes funny portrayalof a family adapting to changing roles.