Now mom and dad are moving the family from brooklyn to maine hoping that it will mean. Elises parents are both gone her mother died at birth. This is an excellent book to read to talk about bullying, espcially girl bullying. Eight keys is a childrens novel by suzanne lafleur that follows the struggles of elise bertrand as.
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