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Afternoon of the Elves

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A Newbery Honor Book
An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Janet Taylor Lisle’s captivating Newbery Honor book explores how, like friendship, magic can emerge whilst you least expect it—and when you wish to have it most. All you must do is look deep.

Anything may happen in Sara-Kate’s backyard. For that matter, anything was happening.

For nine-year-old Hillary Lenox, being friends with Sara-Kate Connolly is a complicated business. Sara-Kate’s clothes don’t match, her hair’s a mess, and she’s known to spit at people once they make her mad. But if Sara-Kate shows Hillary the tiny elf village in her overgrown backyard, Hillary makes a decision she can’t be as awful as all that.

Hillary is amazed by the subtle houses, the miniature well, even an intricate Ferris wheel made of bicycle wheels and popsicle sticks. However the more time she spends in Sara-Kate’s yard, the more questions she has. How come they never go inside Sara-Kate’s house? Why is Sara-Kate on occasion missing from school? And why hasn’t Hillary ever seen Sara-Kate’s mom? If Hillary can just look deep enough, she hopes, she will uncover the secrets of the elves—and of her new friend.


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