Barshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop-literally-Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeeper, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie loves the Journey of the Mind club and struggles to keep from failing miserably on her soccer team, but when both groups have tournaments the same day, she musters her team spirit and tries to succeed at both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013