The Beloved Dearly
What's This Book About
Ernie is a twelve-year-old tycoon, always on the lookout for a fast buck. This time he stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals. He hires Dusty to decorate the burial boxes and Tony to dig the holes, but his prize find is Swimming Pool, a tomboy who can cry on cue. Business goes through the roof – until Ernie loses Swimming Pool over a raise and the whole venture unravels. Here is a rollicking, fun-spirited novel about friendship, loss, business – and how we learn to express our feelings.
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Tony DiTerlizzi is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator who has been creating books with Simon & Schuster for fifteen years. From his fanciful picture books like Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure, Adventure of Meno (with his wife, Angela), and The Spider & The Fly (a Caldecott Honor book), to chapter books like Kenny and The Dragon and The Search for WondLa, Tony always imbues his stories with a rich imagination. His middle grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Holly Black), has sold millions of copies, been adapted into a feature film, and has been translated in more than thirty countries. You can visit him at DiTerlizzi.com.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780689863547
- Publication Date
- August 1, 2003
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Original Publication Date
- November 1, 2001
- Page Count
- 192
- Word Count
- 34732
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2001020308
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 53053180
- Lexile® Level
- 680L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~P
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.5
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 57601
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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