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An exciting summer with Al's father awaits-but when her mom gets sick, Al has to decide what's most important Al can't wait to visit her father's family for an entire month. They've promised her homemade ice cream and a barn dance that even the boy she likes is coming to! Nothing can stop her from having the best summer of her life-that is, if she can quit worrying about leaving her mother, who hasn't been feeling well for weeks. Al wants to be a...
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Her name is Al, not Alexandra! Al's real name is Alexandra, but she hates it. She has always considered herself a nonconformist-she is the only girl in the entire school who wears pigtails, and when all the other girls take the cooking and sewing class, Al wants to take shop. There's just one problem: Girls aren't allowed. Al is determined only to learn useful things, like making bookshelves. With the help of her new best friend, a seventh grader...
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Al is finally turning fourteen, and this birthday is going to bring a lot of changes-starting with a new name! Al has reached the most important point in her life: her fourteenth birthday. Her biggest worry is how boring her life has been so far-nothing exciting has ever happened to her. What if nothing ever does? What's more, she no longer feels like an Al, but she still hates her real name, Alexandra. She needs to find a more dignified name-and...
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Al's father decides to visit her for the first time in years-but does Al really want him back in her life? Al has always marched to the beat of her own drum-and that includes never letting anyone call her by her real name, Alexandra. But now Al's mom is dating a strange man from work, and her dad is coming to visit for the first time in six years. As her whole world is thrown into turmoil, Al doesn't know what to do. What if her mom marries this new...
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