Jenna Lamia
1) Starfish
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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After her father runs off with a dental hygienist, Raymie Clarke decides it is up to her to repair her family. She plans to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition so her father will see her picture in the paper and come home. However, Raymie has competition in Beverly Tapinski and Louisiana Elefante. All of the girls want to win the pageant for different reasons, and none ever imagined they would become friends.
3) Shiver
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In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
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4th Grade Reading
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Kate DiCamillo
Realistic Fiction for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Kate DiCamillo
Realistic Fiction for Kids
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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
8) Linger
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As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
9) Forever
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As the werewolves are hunted by those intent on destroying them, Sam and Grace risk everything to be together.
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Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to save them. Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, "The twelve dancing princesses."