Name: Ferris
Author: DiCamillo, Kate
ISBN: [978-1-53623-105-2,1-53623-105-3]

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Ferris

Author: DiCamillo, Kate

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Follett Number: 2346LD0
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2024
Format: 226 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-53623-105-2
ISBN-10: 1-53623-105-3
LCCN: 2023-944039
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Aunts Fiction

Best Friends Fiction

Friendship Fiction

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Ghosts Fiction

Grandmothers Fiction

Sisters Fiction

During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Uncle Ted moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.

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The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. Rather, she has other plans--wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a specter with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons? As Charisse likes to say, "Every good story is a love story," and Kate DiCamillo has written one for the ages: emotionally resonant and healing, showing the two-time Newbery Medalist at her most playful, universal, and profound.

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