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Grounded
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Grounded
Kate Klise
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.
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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Grounded review by JHal
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JHal

After her father, sister and brother die in an unexpected plane crash, twelve- year-old Daralyn [Dolly] Oakland's life is turned completely upside-down. Everything around her is changing and there is absolutely nothing she can do to stop it. Her once-happy mother has now turned into an angry, grieving woman that Daralyn doesn't even know. Her favorite aunt, Aunt Jessie, has begun dating a new man . . . and Daralyn does not have a good feeling about him.

Rating:
4
Content Rating:

Content rating - nothing offensive
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Grounded review by KMye
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KMye

The book Grounded by: Kate Klise is a wonderful novel about a girl named Daralyn. After a horrible plane crash that kills her father, brother, and sister she gets a bunch of dolls and everyone calls her Dolly. When a mysterious man comes to town and her Aunt Josie falls in love with him Daralyn begins her investigation. After almost getting tricked by the man everything clicks into place and Daralyn discovers this mans secret. Read this marvelous novel to reveal the mans secret and how everyone reacts to it!

Rating:
4
Content Rating:

Content rating - nothing offensive
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