![]() ![]() Even when her dad buys a copy of "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. At the meeting, though, she can’t muster the courage to stand up and speak, and afterward she’s more discouraged than ever. Jones, the school librarian, that she will appear at the upcoming school-board meeting to defend it against the censors. More: Alan Gratz illuminates the universal plight of refugeesĪmy Anne prefers to keep a low profile, but she is not about to take the challenge to her favorite library book lying down. “With everybody else, I’d just stopped trying.” Her two huge Rottweilers, Flotsam and Jetsam, are “the only ones who ever really listened to me,” she says. ![]() ![]() In the afternoons, Amy Anne has been hiding out in the school library, telling her parents she’s in several after-school clubs so she has an excuse to enjoy the peace and quiet before taking the late bus home. She’s the older sister of two little nightmares (“If there was a prize for Worst Siblings of the Century,” she thinks, “Alexis and Angelina would rank right above Fudge Hatcher, Stink Moody, and Edmund Pevensie - and Edmund Pevensie basically sold his brothers out to the White Witch for a plate of desserts.”) and the daughter of two loving but frazzled parents who take her help and patience for granted. ![]()
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