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Double Dog Dare
At his old school, Kansas Bloom was the King of Dares.
At Auden Elementary, Francine Halata has been dying to be the news anchor of the fourth-grade Media Club forever.
So when Kansas and Francine end up in the middle of a dare war to determine who will get the news anchor job, neither of them wants to back down . . . even if it means stringing their underwear up the flagpole.
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Enter the Double Dog Dare contest!
Kids ages 6 -13 are invited to make their own Rube Goldberg machine and enter this contest, for a chance to win tons of fabulous prizes!
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Praise for Double Dog Dare
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Make an umbrella bookmark!
Kids ages 6 -13 are invited to make their own Rube Goldberg machine and enter this contest, for a chance to win tons of fabulous prizes!
Learn all about it here >
Praise for Double Dog Dare
"Lighthearted and humorous!"
"Perceptive and funny!"
"Plenty to make kids laugh!"
"Readers will be hooked!"
Reviewers are gushing about Lisa's latest book!"Perceptive and funny!"
"Plenty to make kids laugh!"
"Readers will be hooked!"
See what all the fuss is about >
Check out Lisa's blog!
Visit me every month at Smack Dab in the Middle, the blog I share with several other middle-grade authors.
Visit my blog >
Make an umbrella bookmark!
Looking for an easy craft project for your home or classroom? Try making this super-fun bookmark, inspired by Umbrella Summer!
Find out how >
Find out how >
Make taffy like Sophie!
Want to make salt water taffy like Sophie and her friends do in Sophie Simon Solves Them All? Read the fun recipe to find out how.
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Lisa's books have been named to a combined twenty-three state reading lists!
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Sophie Simon Solves Them All
Third-grader Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. In her spare time, she makes robots out of toothpicks and operates on earthworms. But does that impress Sophie's parents? No, sir. Sophie's parents wish their daughter was more "well-adjusted." They wish she had at least one friend. But Sophie knows that friends are a waste of time . . . That is until Sophie encounters a problem that is too big for even a genius to solve all by herself.
Umbrella Summer
Annie
Richards knows there are a million things to look out for—bicycle
accidents, food poisoning, chicken pox, smallpox, typhoid fever, runaway
zoo animals, and poison oak. That's why being careful is so important,
even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike
races with her best friend, Rebecca, and hot dogs on the Fourth of July.
Everyone keeps telling Annie not to worry so much, that she's just
fine. But they thought her brother, Jared, was just fine too, and Jared
died.
Will Annie ever find a way to close her umbrella of sadness and step back into the sunshine?
Will Annie ever find a way to close her umbrella of sadness and step back into the sunshine?
The Thing About Georgie
The thing about poodles is that Georgie hates to walk them.
The thing about Jeanie the Meanie is that she would rather write on her shoe than help Georgie with their Abraham Lincoln project.
The thing about Georgie's mom is that she's having a baby—a baby who will probably be taller than Georgie very, very soon.
And the thing about Georgie . . . well, what is the thing about Georgie?
The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower
Bernetta
Wallflower needs to find $9,000 in three short months. It seems
hopeless . . . until Bernetta comes up with a plan that involves a lot
of lying, a little bit of trickery, and a mysterious stranger with
chocolate-brown eyes. But the question she really has to ask herself is:
Is it okay to do something absolutely awful, if everyone thinks you've
done it already?
