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Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has an accident.Tags
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This is a chapter book about a little girl and her friends playing in her back yard during the summer. It tells of the adventures they go on such as ghost hunting, a circus, to space, and on a safari. They even get to be in a real play at the end of the book.
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Children's author and reviewer Mary Hoffman was born in 1945. She attended Newnham College to study English literature and University College London to study linguistics. She started writing in 1970 and has written about eighty children's books including the picture book Amazing Grace, the Stravaganza series, and the anti-war anthology Lines in show more the Sand. She is also the editor of the children's book review magazine Armadillo, which comes out four times a year. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
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- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .H67562 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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