![]() ![]() It stayed into my head long after I'd read it. It was a book idea that I never would have come up with myself, and it was so gripping and so exciting to read that it made me read it right until the very end. " I found this book a very relatible book even though it had such a different plot to it. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Best for 6th graders and upper elementary." Readers will appreciate the warmth and tenderness with which the story is told. This a touching and emotional read that made me tear up a few times as a mother. As an orphan, Elise's struggle to establish an identity and feel acceptance is even more complicated. ![]() "Great book that handles the angst of middle school realistically: the bully you can't rat out, the odd-ball friend that might be destroying any chance you might have of being cool, the struggle to keep up with several different classes. A key that unlocks one of the eight doors upstairs in the bar. Then, soon after her 12th birthday, Elise receives a mysterious key left for her by her father. When Elise and Franklin start middle school, things feel all wrong. There's always been a barn behind the house with eight locked doors on the second floor. Elise has always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt, because Elise's parents died when she was too young to remember them. Elise and Franklin have always been best friends. ![]()
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