Grounded

By Kate Klise

Book Overview

A middle grade novel about a 12-year-old girl dealing with loss, who uncovers a rather grisly scam involving a crematorium. After her brother, sister, and father die in a plane crash, Daralynn Oakland receives 237 dolls from well-wishers, resulting in her nickname: Dolly. But dolls are little comfort to a twelve-year-old girl whose world is rocked by the dramatic changes in her life, including her angry, grieving mother's new job as a hairstylist at the local funeral home. Dolly gets a job, too, where she accidentally invents a fashionable new haircut. But in Grounded by Kate Klise, her real work begins when a crematorium comes to town, and someone has to save a dying business, solve a burning mystery, and resuscitate the broken hearts in Digginsville, Missouri, population 402.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312570392
• ISBN13: 9780312570392
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8