Just Harriet

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From the award-winning author of A Boy Called Bat comes a new young middle grade series in the tradition of Ramona and Clementine, starring an unforgettable girl named Harriet.

There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer:

• She just finished third grade.
• She has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball.
• She doesnt always tell the truth.
• She is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year.

Okay, maybe that last one isnt entirely the truth.

Of course, theres nothing Harriet doesn't like about Marble Island, the small island off the coast of California where her nanu runs a cozy little bed and breakfast. And nobody doesnt love Moneypenny, Nanus old basset hound. But Harriet doesnt like the fact that Dad made this decision without even asking her.

When Harriet arrives on Marble Island, however, she discovers that it's full of surprises, and even a mystery.One that seems to involve her Dad, back when he was a young boy living on Marble Island.One that Harriet is absolutely going to solve. And that's the truth.

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"A gentle, slow-moving summer adventure thats big on character growth." School Library Journal

Author Bio

Elana K. Arnold is the author of many books for children and teens, including the middle grade novelsA Question of Miracles, FarFrom Fair, andA Boy Called Bat, and theYA novelsWhat Girls Are MadeOfandInfandous.What Girls Are Made Of was a 2017 National Book Award finalist, and her other books have been variouslyincluded on the Los Angeles Public Library's Best Books of the Year list, the Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year list, the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list, have been ALAN Picks, and have been selected for inclusion in the Amelia Bloomer Project.She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing/Fiction from the University of California, Davis, and currently lives in Huntington Beach, California, with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals.