K. G Campbell

When Cousin Clara's house is eaten by a crocodile, she comes to stay with Lester and his family. She knits terrible sweaters, but out of kindness Lester wears them to school. However, after school the sweaters mysteriously disappear or get ruined.

Expecting a dog for her birthday, a girl is upset and furious when she gets a tortoise instead, but soon learns that even a tortoise can be a good pet.

Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen

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