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It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer 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 holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris’s grandmother, has started seeing a ghost in the doorway to her room – which seems like an alarming omen given that she is feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. Rather, she has other plans – wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a spectre with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons?
As Charisse likes to say, “Every good story is a love story,” and Kate DiCamillo has written one for the ages: emotionally resonant and healing, showing the twice Newbery Medallist at her most playful, universal and profound.
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love, friendship, grief, belonging, family, dogs, music, word definitions, vocabulary, ghost, reconciliation
10-year-old Ferris is about to learn that life and love are complicated. Ferris lives with her dog, Boomer, her grandmother, Charisse, her mother and father, and her infamous younger sister, nicknamed Pinky. Thanks to their vocabulary-obsessed teacher, Mrs Mielk, Ferris and her best friend, the piano-playing Billy Jackson, delight in words and definitions. Ferris is focused on two things at the beginning of her summer holidays. Firstly, her grandmother Charisse is unwell and keeps seeing a mournful ghost. Secondly, her Uncle Ted has moved into the basement after leaving his wife to paint a history of the world. He has asked Ferris to be a spy for love. Is Ferris up for the task?
