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\nAdditional copies are available for checkout at BPL and on the Libby app.
\nBook Summary: \;
\nIt's the summer before fifth grade\, and for Ferris Wilkey\, it is a summer of she er pandemonium: Her little sister\, Pinky\, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and\, to Ferris's mother's chagrin\, is h oled up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charis se\, Ferris's grandmother\, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room\, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeli ng unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyon d. Rather\, she has other plans-wild\, impractical\, illuminating plans. H ow can Ferris satisfy a specter with Pinky terrorizing the town\, Uncle Te d sending Ferris to spy on her aunt\, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons? \;
\nAs Charisse likes to say\, "Every good story i s a love story\," and Kate DiCamillo has written one for the ages: emotion ally resonant and healing\, showing the two-time Newberry Medalist at her most playful\, universal\, and profound. \;
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