| Title | : | Larger-Than-Life Lara |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Dandi Daley Mackall |
| Release | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Books, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Coming of Age for Young Adults, Religious Fiction for Young Adults |
| Size | : | 3086371 |
| This isn’t about me. This story, I mean. So already you got a reason to hang it up. At least that’s what Mrs. Smith, our English teacher, says. But the story is about ten-year-old Laney Grafton and the new girl in her class—Lara Phelps, whom everyone bullies from the minute she shows up. Laney is just relieved to have someone else as a target of bullying. But instead of acting the way a bullied kid normally acts, this new girl returns kindness for a meanness that intensifies . . . until nobody remains unchanged, not even the reader. In a unique and multi-layered story, with equal parts humor and angst, Laney communicates the art of storytelling as it happens, with chapter headings, such as: Character, Setting, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax. And she weaves an unforgettable tale of a new girl who transforms an entire class and, in the process, reveals the best and worst in all of us. This is a powerful and emotional story, which School Library Journal called “Thoroughly enjoyable and unexpectedly wry, . . . as intelligent as it is succinct.” |
