"A Feiwel and Friends book"--Copyright page.

"It's the summer of 1974. Nellie's turned thirteen. Her best friend Maya has a crush on a boy. President Nixon might get impeached. And her mom's run off. The money for their family road trip to see Mt. Rushmore is missing and her dad's crawled into bed and won't get up. Nellie's sure the trip out West will fix her family, and she'll do almost anything to come up with the cash. But she begins to wonder why it's always her, the girl, who's stuck with the dishes and everything else"--Publisher marketing.