The crystal garden

Description:

Looking for a new beginning after her father's death, Eliza and her mother move to a backwater town in Missouri where Eliza's desperate attempts to be popular in her new school are thwarted by her growing friendship with the eccentric girl next door.

subjects: Fiction,  Friendship in fiction,  Popularity in fiction,  Popularity,  Schools in fiction,  Death,  Mothers and daughters in fiction,  Death in fiction,  Schools,  Mothers and daughters,  Friendship,  Children's fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Death, fiction,  Mothers, fiction,  Popularity, fiction