WILLODEEN 6-34-HD1207A Growing up gifted and working-class

Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks

ducking his temperamental outbursts and struggling to pay the household bills

she joined the local mom group--''the Mamas''--and quickly realized that being one of the only Black mothers in the mix was a mixed bag

they vanished

This lighthearted story about loyalty

WILLODEEN 6-34-HD1207A Growing up gifted and working-classFrom #1 New York Times bestseller Katherine Applegate, a singular middle grade novel about a girl who risks everything to help a handmade creature who comes to life. The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . . Eleven year old Willodeen adores creatures of all kinds, but her favorites are the most unlovable beasts in the land: strange beasts known as ''screechers.'' The villagers of Perchance call them pests, even monsters,