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Gr 4–6—Kammie Summers is wedged partway down a well shaft, unable to move her arms and possibly running low on oxygen. In a funny, surreal, occasionally heartbreaking stream-of-consciousness narrative, Kammie ponders the clique of girls whose mean-spirited initiation ritual caused her fall down the well and who don't feel as much urgency about her rescue as Kammie (and readers) might hope. She contemplates her mother, frazzled from working two jobs; her father, in prison for embezzling money from a children's charity; and the fall...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Eleven-year-old narrator Kammie Summers tells most of this story from inside a well. New in town and eager to make friends, she has agreed to what turns out to be a fake initiation into popular-girls Mandy, Kandy, and Sandy's clique, resulting in a catastrophic fall. For much of the brief text, readers are right there with Kammie in that well, learning vivid details of her predicament -- sliding down farther makes the skin rub off her knees and elbows; her lungs feel "gluey." But her thoughts mean...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Eleven-year-old Kammie tells most of this story from inside the well into which she's fallen after a (fake) initiation into a popu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More