Seventeen against the Dealer - Softcover

Dicey leaves college to make a living building boats, but passion is no substitute for experience, and after her business folds, she is forced to face the consequences of her obsession

textured....No one who loves the Tillermans--whose joys and troubles are as compelling as ever--will want to miss this."
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There's only one thing Dicey Tillerman wants to do--and that's build boats. If she can make a success of doing what she loves, she can take care of the rest of the Tillerman clan, which includes her two younger brothers, her younger sister, and Gram, who took them all in when their mother abandoned them. But dreaming isn't doing, and Dicey begins to find out the hard way that starting a business is difficult, and that you have to expect the unexpected....