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As simple as it seems

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Main Author: Weeks, Sarah.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Laura Geringer Books, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Puberty > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Families > New York (State) > Juvenile fiction.
Ghosts > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Juvenile fiction.
Adoption > Juvenile fiction.
Catskill Mountains region (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Physical Description: 181 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience: 009-013.
ISBN: 9780060846633 (trade bdg.)
0060846631 (trade bdg.)
9780060846640 (lib. bdg.)
006084664X (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes: Sarah weeks was born March 18, 1955 in Ann Arbor Michigan. She received her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from New York University. Sarah is the author of numerous best-selling children's books including Glamourpuss, Woof!: A Love Story, Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth, If I Were a Lion, the hilarious Mrs. McNosh series, and many more.

Sarah's book, So B. It, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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