Stealing Mt. Rushmore

(Hardback)

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Twelve-year-old Nellie discovers that her mom has stolen the $400 her dad saved for their family road trip to see his beloved Mt. Rushmore. Her father had been counting on four boys so he could name them after the four presidents. He's got only three-George, Tom, and Teddy-and one Nellie. With a missing mom there's not much chance for an Abe. Nellie's determined to come up with the cash so they can all pile into their car and drive out west. She'll do anything she can, even if it means selling off her mother's stuff. Since she's gone, she doesn't need it. But for the first time in her life, Nellie is tired of taking care of everyone and everything, and Nellie's not so sure she's on the same side as her dad. She's got her family to fix and the world itself doesn't seem solid anymore.

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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Once in a while in good books, very good books, a character comes along who is larger than life in her gritty reality, her strength and flaws, her basic humanity. Thirteen-year-old Nellie is a fighter and the resolution of her story is brilliant and multifaceted. I could not put it down. --Debby Dahl Edwardson, author of National Book Award Finalist, My Name Is Not Easy

Daphne Kalmar has created a wonderfully imperfect cast of characters and gathered them into a story that will break your heart. . . and heal it again. Stealing Mt. Rushmore has it all. --Marion Dane Bauer, author of the Newberry Honor novel On My Honor

Author Bio

Daphne Kalmar was an elementary and middle-school teacher for over twenty years. Exploring the natural world with kids was her passion as an educator-she owned seventy-five pairs of rubber boots so she could outfit each new class in September and lead weekly expeditions to local creeks and ponds. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of A Stitch in Time.