Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand the designer lived in luxury

the designer lived in luxury with Bergé

Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11

live in a hotel room for more than three months

With full-color illustrations and a trim size ideal for young readers

from the Sonoran Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom

Going on Nine illustrated by Lionel Richerand the designer lived in luxuryA child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better family. What happens next is a summer long journey in which Grace Townsend rides shotgun in a Plymouth Belvedere, and hunkers in the back of a rattletrap vegetable truck, crawls into a crumbling tunnel, dresses up with a prom