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![]() ![]() ![]() The story starts with the typical “outcast” child and the girl who becomes friends with her. This is a haunting and bittersweet story. As she and Hillary watch for their elusive new friends, they learn that friendship, like magic, springs up where you least expect it. This ebook features a personal history by Janet Taylor Lisle including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s own collection. To Sara-Kate, the answer is clear-only elves could be responsible for something so enchanted. But there’s absolutely no sign of who built this miniature world. It has tiny houses made from string, sticks, and maple leaves a well with a bottlecap for a bucket and even a little playground with a Popsicle-stick Ferris wheel. ![]() In Sara-Kate’s overgrown backyard, Hillary will find proof of a world of magic-the kind that can only blossom between true friends. Among the rusted car parts and wild plants, a miniature village has sprung up. But Hillary is her next-door neighbor, and can’t say no when the unusual loner invites her over to play. Her boots are dirty, her clothes are weird, and she’s so maladjusted that the school had to hold her back a grade. No fourth grader trusts Sara-Kate Connolly. In “this enchanting story about friendship,” two fourth grade girls discover a magical world hidden in one’s backyard ( Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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