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At Walden Middle School, four friends decide to keep their mother‑daughter book club going as they start seventh grade. They read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic "Anne of Green Gables," and each of them faces the challenges of a mean, troublemaking classmate while balancing the pressures of adolescence and family expectations.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Coming of Age/Childhood Coming of Age
Authors: Heather Vogel Frederick
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