Lucy Rose

By Katy Kelly, Adam Rex (Illustrator)

Fourth grade is hectic, but Lucy Rose's biggest challenge? Stopping her mom's new romance.

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192 pages· 25,386 words· Est. 3.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Lucy Rose juggles fourth grade chaos, from mastering multiplication to starring in the school play. But her biggest challenge? Her mom's new 'friend' who might be more than just a friend. Determined to keep them apart, Lucy embarks on a mission filled with eavesdropping and unexpected discoveries. Can she handle the truth, or will it all be too much for one busy fourth grader?

From the publisher

I’m Lucy Rose, and here’s the thing about 4th: that grade is busy like you can’t believe! Especially if you are a person who is already PLENTY busy on account of having RESPONSIBILITIES and I am that kind exactly. I am already collecting a vocabulary, plus I have to think up new palindromes and now I have to do the most P-U thing which is the MULTIPLICATION tables, which I would say is a thing I hate, if I was allowed to say hate, which I am not. PLUS I have to do the greatest thing and that is be in the play of Annie and I’m sure I will get to be Annie because 1. I have red hair and 2. if I don’t I will absolutely perish to death. PLUS there is another thing I have to do absolutely constantly and that is what my mom calls eavesdropping but I call LISTENING VERY QUIETLY SO I CAN KNOW THINGS. But that turns out to be halfway sickening because now I know a thing about my mom and it’s that she has a FRIEND that is a MAN and I think they are having DATES. That makes me feel like I’m horrified to pieces and part of me doesn’t want to know a single more thing but the other part does because how else can I figure out how to keep those 2 apart? And here is the thing about that: it can make a girl exhausted.

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