Description
| Publisher: | Scholastic Asia |
| Series: | Guided Reading |
| Published: | |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Author: | Dar Williams |
| Illustrated by: | |
| Guide Reading Level(US): | W |
| Reading Recovery Level: | 32 |
| Lexile: | 790L |
| Text type: | Fiction |
| ISBN: |
9780439877244 |
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When Amalee's grandmother dies, she inherits a very strange object: a huge champagne bottle filled with over a thousand dollars' worth of change. Amalee is told to spend the money on something important, so she decides to make a movie about endangered species. Soon there's as much going on behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera, as Amalee deals with a new friend, a very cute older boy, her wacky family friends, and a host of other challenges. She also discovers something she never expected to find - a link with her mother, who disappeared and died when she was very little. Behind the camera, Amalee comes to understand that the past can never be... |