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Product Description Twenty Kids. Twenty points of view. One rambunctious, brilliantly conceived novel that corrals the seeming chaos (c’mon, TWENTY points of view!) into one effervescent story. Sixth grade is a MOST confusing time. Best friends aren’t friends anymore. Worst enemies suddenly want to be partners in crime. And classmates you thought you knew have all sorts of surprising stuff going on. The kids in Mrs. Herrera’s class are dealing with all these things and more—specifically, three more: 1. There’s a new girl who just seems to be spying on them all and scribbling things in a notebook. Maybe she IS a spy? 2. Someone is stealing all of Mrs. Herrera’s most treasured items. 3. Their old classmate, Sam, keeps showing up and no one knows why…until they do. Which leads to a fourth problem. But we can’t tell you about that yet. The twenty kids in Mrs. Herrera’s classroom can, though, and they do. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Review "A complex, thought-provoking, and entertaining view of middle school." -- Publishers Weekly *"A must for every sixth-grade classroom library." -- Booklist, starred review "A feel-good book about being good." -- School Library Journal About the Author Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One Chapter One Ellie Thursday, September 28 Ellie closed her notebook with a satisfied pat and leaned back in her seat. Done. Finished. Complete. Hermione Granger, Fifth-Grade Muggle was ready for publication. She’d have to figure out how to publish a book, of course. Could a sixth grader find an agent? Because Ellie was pretty sure you had to have an agent if you wanted to get a real book published, which is to say a book with a cover and pages, a book people could buy in bookstores. Mrs. Herrera would know what to do, Ellie thought. Mrs. Herrera was the sort of teacher who would have a dozen great ideas for getting your first novel published. Even better, she wouldn’t look at Ellie like she was crazy. Publish a book? You just started middle school and you think you can publish a book? That was the sort of thing other adults might say, but not Mrs. Herrera. Ellie reached into her desk and pulled out her spelling notebook. There were fifteen minutes left in study hall, plenty of time to finish her LA homework. She’d still have Spanish to do when she got home, but Spanish never took long, ten minutes tops. She could zip right through it and then get started on a new novel now that she was done with Hermione. It was the perfect sort of day for starting a new novel, Ellie thought as she uncapped her fountain pen, the air just cool enough that she could sit on the front porch swing wearing her cozy green sweater, the perfect sort of sweater to wear when you were writing your second novel in the last week of September. Cerulean, Ellie wrote down, her pen making a satisfying scratch on the paper. A shade of deep blue. Sentence: As we stood on the beach, we looked out on the cerulean-blue ocean. But what should her new novel be about? When she’d started Hermione Granger, Fifth-Grade Muggle in June, she’d known exactly what she wanted to write. J. K. Rowling had barely said anything in the Harry Potter books about Hermione’s pre-Hogwarts years, a
