The Exiles at Home

Written by Hilary McKay

Four sisters cook up wild money-making schemes, and every one ends in chaos.

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208 pages· 44,738 words· Est. 6 hour read· 780L· AR 5.3 · 7 AR pts

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Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, then discovers how hard it is to find ten pounds a month. Her sisters Naomi, Rachel and Phoebe rush to help, and the four girls dream up one fundraising scheme after another: babysitting, catering, even pavement art. Each plan is more mischievous than the last, and each one ends in hilarious disaster.

From the publisher

Hillary McKay returns with another hilarious and adventurous story of the four Conroy sisters as they come together to devise a plan helping Ruth sponsor a child in Africa. When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for just how difficult it is to find ten pounds per month. As any sister's next step would be, Ruth enlists the help of Phoebe, Naomi, and Rachel. All too eager to help their sister, the four girls work together to come up with multiple hare-brained, fundraising schemes that are a bit too mischievous to be fruitful. From undisciplined babysitters to unhygienic caterers and fraudulent pavement artists, the Conroy sisters' hilarious projects never fail to cause chaos and mayhem.

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