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Welcome to the Mishaps in Paradise diaries, a middle school series about two sisters experiencing humorous misadventures on a tropical island. MISHAPS IN PARADISE 1: DIARY OF AN ISLAND GIRL New home. New life. New kids. All before the dreaded middle school in the fall. Can it get any worse? Sylvia and her sister, Natalia, have just moved to the tropics, where summer lasts all year. But they didn't move to some fascinating, big city. No, that would be too much to ask! Instead, they moved to an island-AN ISLAND! Imagine swaying palm trees, sandy beaches, jumping dolphins . . . and absolutely nothing to do!! As if fifth grade wasn't hard enough, Sylvia now has to worry about fitting in with new kids at the local island school! She is nothing like her sister, who is a social butterfly. Sylvia must figure out how to make new friends, talk to a boy who likes her, deal with the mean girl, prove she is ready-or not-for middle school, avoid PE at all costs, and not go crazy being stuck on an island. Can she survive living in the tropics?

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Eva Polizze has been drawn to islands since she was a little kid. When she was fifteen, she attended a summer camp in Spain, where she fell in love with palm trees and warm climate regions for life. When she was seventeen, she won first place in a national writing competition and was awarded a trip to Italy and a three-week vacation in Corsica. After that, she knew she would always be a writer and an island girl. Over the years, she has traveled to many tropical places in the world, but her dream to live in the islands finally came true when she moved to the Florida Keys in 2014, a place she will always call home. Living on a small tropical island, surrounded by turquoise waters, jumping dolphins, and friendly Key deer, she writes about the island life in her books. Eva Polizze is the author of the Mishaps in Paradise diaries, a middle school series about two sisters experiencing humorous misadventures on a tropical island. She has two daughters, Olivia and Claudia, who are her inspiration for the books. You can visit her website at www.evapolizze.com

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