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Starting School with an Enemy

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By Elisa Carbone
Publisher Random House Children's Books - (Yearling)
Starting School with an Enemy
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Author Elisa Carbone bursts onto the middlegrade scene with a laughoutloud story of a girl who tackles life headon. Tenyearold Sarah definitely has an attitude. But who can blame her? Her family dragged her along on their move from Maine to Maryland, shes left her best friend behind, and the first kid her age she meets calls her a sicko. What did she do? All Sarah really wants is to make a good friend. But just as it looks as if she might find one in fasttalking, soccerplaying Christina Perez, Sarahs newfound enemy launches a crusade to make her life miserable. And Sarah cant stop herself from getting revengeeven though it threatens her new friendship.Lots of laughs and spunky characters abound in this totally entertaining middlegrade novel, reminiscent in style to those of Barbara Park and Judy Blume. Sarahs witty observations and trouble making antics make for fun reading, and readerseven reluctant oneswill cheer as she finds an inventive solution to her enemy problem.

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21271 words21,271 words
112 pages112 pages
Lexile 780LLexile 780L
Grade 3 to 6Grade 3 to 6
Published 2000Published 2000

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9780679886402

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