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Larger-than-Life Lara

By Mackall, Dandi Daley

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When Lara Phelps walks into Laney Grafton's fourth-grade class, Laney feels the air change. Lara is fat. Really fat. Finally, there will be someone else for the boys to pick on, Laney thinks. But as the class prepares for the school play, Lara doesn't act the way a fat kid should. She's confident. She's happy. And nothing, it seems, can change her positive attitude. Until one day, when Laney's classmates do the unthinkable. Bestselling author Dandi Daley Mackall tells this original and poignant story through the use of sparkling language, a winsome narrator, and a clever structure that illustrates just what makes a story a story.

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978-0-52547-726-6
Publisher
Dutton Juvenile


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on September 1, 2006

Gr 4-6 Ten-year-old Laney Grafton is more than a little relieved when Lara Phelps (immediately dubbed -Larger-Than-Life Lara -) joins her class. Enormously fat and relentlessly kind, Lara distracts the local bullies from all the negative attention that Laney has previously received. Unfortunately, Lara -s cheerfulness attracts quite a lot of nasty attention from her other classmates as well until somethi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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