Grounded

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/20/2013
ISBN: 9780312555917
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.63h x 5.22w x 0.61d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 142328 / Grounded
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 5