Larger-Than-Life Lara

Larger-Than-Life Lara by Dandi Daley Mackall. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780525477266.

When Lara Phelps walks into Laney Graftons fourth-grade class, Laney feels the air change. Lara is fat. Really fat. Finally, there will be someone else for the boys to pick on, Laney thinks. But as the class prepares for the school play, Lara doesnt act the way a fat kid should. Shes confident. Shes happy. And nothing, it seems, can change her positive attitude. Until one day, when Laneys classmates do the unthinkable. Bestselling author Dandi Daley Mackall tells this original and poignant story through the use of sparkling language, a winsome narrator, and a clever structure that illustrates just what makes a story a story.