The Secret Summer of L.E.B.

About the Book

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Text for author bio box: Please use the author's bio Text for book description Box: Belonging to the V.I.G.'s and B.'s梩he Very Important Girls and Boys梚s the ultimate achievement in Lizabeth's sixth-grade class. Of course, being a V.I.G. or B. has a price. It often means being something she isn't or saying things she doesn't mean.

But the price doesn't seem too high梪ntil she comes to know a boy who for no accountable reason has become a class outcast. When Lizabeth's friendship with him grows, she finds her loyalties torn, trying to keep the secret friendship from the V.I.G.'s and B.'s.

NLAPW Children's Book Award.

About the Author

Barbara Brooks Wallace is the author of many books for children. She is noted particularly for her Victorian mysteries, or gothics, often described by reviewers as "Dickensian." Both her Twin in the Tavern and Sparrows in the Scullery have won Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. Peppermints in the Parlor was a winner of the William Allan White Award.