Here is the first sentence of Grounded by Kate Klise:
I'm alive today because I was grounded.
Thus begins this middle grade novel. I know I had to keep reading. Here is the book description:
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 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.
Oh, I'm not usually a fan of YA or Middle Grade books, but I've been known to read some that sound fabulous...and this one does. Thanks for sharing.
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