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Stephanie Barden has created a great role model for tweens. Cinderella Smith is confident, smart, and very real. Fans of Junie B. Jones and Clementine will love watching Cinderella conquer the problems of third-grade life, and parents will appreciate the vocabulary-enhancing words Stephanie Barden sprinkles through the story.   In The Super-Secret Mystery, third in the Cinderella Smith chapter-book series, Cinderella is excited to write a report on an endangered species. She can’t wait to investigate this important environmental issue. But every book she needs to do her research has disappeared from the library! That won’t stop Cinderella. She won’t be stopped by the mean-girl bullies and will follow every clue until she solves the mystery of the missing books.   Illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Diane Goode add to the appeal of Cinderella’s story.

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praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Funny and clever! Readers will love this modern day Cinderella. It s a delight with the most satisfying ending. --Patricia Reilly Giff, Newbery Honor winner and author of best-selling Polk Street School series

praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: THE MORE THE MERRIER: The sweet first-person narrator [and] black-line illustrations by Diane Goode add to the charm. --Seattle Times

praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Funny and clever! Readers will love this modern day Cinderella. It's a delight...with the most satisfying ending. --Patricia Reilly Giff, Newbery Honor winner and author of best-selling Polk Street School series praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Fans of Clementine and Ramona will enjoy good-natured Cinderella's triumph over mean girls and her success at a tap-dance recital, all embellished by Diane Goode's simple black-line illustrations.--Seattle Times praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Cinderella's bouncy energy, captured expertly in Goode's emotive line drawings, is infectious...It's hard to leave Cinderella behind. --Horn Book Magazine praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Cinderella's narration carries this early chapter book, and her upper-elementary woes are perfectly captured in her eager and personable voice... Goode's energetic sketchwork adds to the spirited narrative. --The Bulletin of the Center for ChildrenThe Bulletin of the Center for Children praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: THE MORE THE MERRIER: The sweet first-person narrator [and] black-line illustrations by Diane Goode add to the charm. --Seattle Times Cinderella continues to charm with her positive ways of making peace in her third-grade classroom. --Seattle Times Cinderella continues to charm with her positive ways of making peace in her third-grade classroom. --Seattle Times praise for CINDERELLA SMITH: Funny and clever! Readers will love this modern day Cinderella. It s a delight with the most satisfying ending. --Patricia Reilly Giff, Newbery Honor winner and author of best-selling Polk Street School series Fans of this series will appreciate the subtle changes that happen in these sunny stories. The boys and girls are growing up and noticing each other in different ways-they solve problems and forgive each other. Goode's black-and-white illustrations add humor and emotion to the story.--Kirkus Reviews

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In between tripping over abandoned shoes, chasing after escaped pets, and searching for lost belongings, Stephanie Barden wrote this, her first book. She teaches classes at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, where she lives with her husband, Tom, son, Joe, and eighty-pound lap dog, Otis.

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