After prodding her best friend Annie into trying out for the lead in the play she has written for their sixth grade class, Charlotte feels herself losing control of her own play and experiences jealousy when Annie suddenly gets all the attention.
In her journal, chapters of the novel she is writing, and letters to a New York editor who has befriended her, a fifteen-year-old budding author reveals her journey of self-discovery in the midst of a dysfunctional family.
A fifth grader who simply cannot keep from telling lies, Charlotte, in her desperation to be included by a group of girls in her class, tells her most outlandish tale ever.
A fifth grader who simple can not keep from telling lies, Charlotte, in her desperation to be included by a group of girls in her class, tells her most outlandish tale ever.
During his summer in Maine, twelve-year-old Homer, together with his new friend Roger, is determined to find the truth about himself, his long-dead father, and a mysterious costumed man.
After prodding her best friend Annie into trying out for the lead in the play she has written for their sixth grade class, Charlotte feels herself losing control of her own play and experiences jealousy when Annie suddenly gets all the attention.
