Haven Kimmel
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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A continuation of the memoir "A Girl Named Zippy" follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by returning to college and losing fifty pounds, while Zippy continues to work out the dynamic of their nuclear family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Named "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around her home, Kimmel's witty memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period, where people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards
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This Today Show book club selection is now available on audio. Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds her. Kimmel takes listeners back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period: people helped...
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2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Third-grader Kaline Klattermaster's father has gone somewhere and his mother cannot seem to keep everything straight the way he did, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary treehouse--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Alone but for her beloved dog, she's eked out an impoverished but functional existence, putting herself through college, and astonishing her teachers with her genius and erudition. What they don't know is that she leads a double life: thanks to forged documents, at school she is Ianthe Covington, a young woman with no past. Falling in love with her professor,...