"Ruby Holler," Sharon Creech, Bloomsbury; 2002, 310 pp.

How do you reform a pair of 13-year-old twins who spend every spare moment breaking, spilling, throwing or dropping things -- and cursing loudly when they're caught?

If you're Tiller and Sairy Morey, you start by accepting them.

For Dallas and Florida, the "trouble twins" of Boxton Creek Home, the rules are only there to be broken, many times over. As Florida puts it: "If we're going to get blamed for everything, we might as well actually do something to get blamed for."