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264 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Lily Pruitt loves her grandparents, but she doesn't love the circus -- and the circus is their life. She's perfectly happy to stay with her father, away from her neglectful mother and her grandfather's elephant, Queenie Grace. Queenie Grace, a circus elephant, is happy to have Grandpa Bill as her keeper. She has had cruel keepers in the past, but Bill is her friend and treats her with love and respect. She doesn't quite understand...
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Theme: Hi-lo, Young Adult, teen, realistic fiction, poetry, verse, texting and driving, death, heaven. Macy is dead. Selfies while driving never end well. She knows it now #suckstobeme. And she has unfinished business. Her friend Ryan is planning to shoot up the school. But the afterlife is so ... unexpected. She gets distracted. Who knew she would find love? Just like prose, a novel in verse tells a story. But verse is unique because readers access...
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Like watching a movie frame by frame, we watch Lexi come unglued in this novel in verse. She's alienated from school and family. Her father is in the county jail. She cannot connect with her chain-smoking stepmom. Her brother, Blaine, is trapped in his own autistic world. And her infant sister's death has sent her into a spiral of grief and rebellion. Bright, witty, and irreverent, Lexi tries to navigate the rocky transition from adolescent to young...
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First, there was Bird. Then there was Bird-Bird. And now, Third Bird.
Magnolia's daddy won the beloved cockatiel Third Bird at a carnival, just before he, died in a car accident. Magnolia promised to always take good care of Third Bird... but then she loses him, when she accidentally, allows the bird to fly from his cage at her mama's beauty salon.
Magnolia's grief, for her father and for her lost bird, opens up a whole, new world of friends as they...
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