Meet Daisy Bauer and her sometimes best friend, Graham, who are determined to break Daisy's dad out of prison in this hilarious middle-grade debut.
No one believes her, but Daisy Bauer knows her dad has been wrongfully imprisoned and that it's up to her to break him out of jail (aka Club Fed). She has a plan that she's calling the Graham Cracker Plot because it was all Graham's idea. She just needs a miniature horse, a getaway truck, and a penny from 1919—the idea coin.
This funny, nail-biter of a novel is about friendship and admitting you're wrong. Debut novelist Shelley Tougas balances humor and warmth against themes of family, broken trust, and unconditional love against all odds.
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“A lively narration by Olivia Campbell captures the voice of twelve-year-old Daisy Bauer as she recounts the ingenious plot,thought up by her friend Graham, to bust her father out of prison. Campbell’syouthful and highly modulated voice reveals Daisy’s frustration with her homelife. Conveying spunkiness rather than self-pity, Campbell captures a spiritedgirl as she comes to terms with the truth about her father. Her narration offersvivid portrayals of other characters as well, including Graham’s lisp after heloses his front teeth and Grandma’s churlishness…Campbell’s sensitiveperformance enhances a touching story about friendship and growing up.”
— AudioFile
“Daisy’s life is messy, out of control, and filled with madly improbable characters and crazy escapades…Tougas leads Daisy on a journey of self-awareness that gradually allows her to come to a more compassionate view of the people in her life…Readers will find themselves rooting for Daisy and Graham and for it all to turn out all right.”
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Olivia Campbell is a journalist and author specializing in medicine and women; her work has appeared in The Guardian, the Washington Post, New York Magazine and The Cut, among others.