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You may already recognize the names as the film is based on the Newbery Award-winning book Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. Written by Kate DiCamillo.

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The Disney+ movie Flora & Ulysses opens with a montage of comic-book panels exclusively featuring Marvel characters, and its protagonist is a girl who teams up with a superpowered squirrel. But this is not a stealth reboot of Squirrel Girl, although it uses its corporate connection to Marvel in smart and funny ways.

Raymie Nightingale

As the summer progresses, the girls find poignant points of commonality and a surprising comradeship in this wistful, tender, funny novel for readers ages 10 and older. Raymie Nightingale is filled with humor, poignancy, and life-sized lessons.

“The Nightingale” has already caused controversies at festivals, where people walked out, outraged at the multiple violent rape scenes. The issue with “The Nightingale” isn’t its violence, nor its portrayal of rape. The violence is appropriate (and the film is appropriately difficult to watch).

Raymie finds herself spilling the entire story to another nurse, including that her father has run away. Reporters soon learn about the events and take Raymie’s picture, running a story in the newspaper. Raymie remains at the hospital with Louisiana and she is there when her father calls.

Raymie Nightingale explores universal themes of friendship, loss, and life’s unanswerable questions in a way that will resonate with young readers and older readers who remember their younger selves. It’s a story of the ways we try to save each other, and the ways we ultimately save ourselves.

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Although Raymie is the protagonist of this novel, readers get to know Louisiana and Beverly as well. Each girl is unique and has specific traits that make her who she is. Explain to your class what character traits are and how authors use them to develop characters.

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DiCamillo’s eighth novel for middle-grade readers, Louisiana’s Way Home, is a companion novel to her Raymie Nightingale, which was published in 2016 to much critical acclaim, including a starred review in PW. Raymie Nightingale was a finalist for that year’s National Book Award in Young People’s Literature.

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First came Raymie Nightingale, the “triumphant and necessary book”* that would become a National Book Award Finalist. Then followed the tender Louisiana’s Way Home, featuring “one of DiCamillo’s most singular and arrestin.

Kate DiCamillo’s latest book “Beverly, Right Here” completes a trilogy of novels involving three characters introduced in her 2016 book “Raymie Nightingale.” The second book “Louisiana’s Way Home” was published in 2018.

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From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried.

Beverly, Right Here

So enters the solo Louisiana, cursed from birth with sundering — a plague on her family since 1910 when her great-grandfather, a magician, had sawed her great-grandmother in half but refused to put her back together. “This, as you can imagine,” Louisiana tells us, “had disastrous and far-reaching consequences.”

“He wanted a story about an unlikely hero,” recalls DiCamillo, “and the hero had to have exceptionally big ears.” She tried to explain to the boy that characters don’t just materialize on demand; they have to exist as ideas in the writer’s head in order to work.

It is revealed that Louisiana has been writing down the events of the novel as a letter to her Granny. She ends her letter by telling Granny how things shook out with the Allens and that she has finally forgiven her.

And Beverly, Right Here is about acting on that knowledge of who you are. They are all stories of becoming, I think.” Candlewick Press plans a global laydown on September 24, 2019, supported by an extensive marketing campaign and national author tour to support the new release.

But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home.

Kate DiCamillo

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57 years (March 25, 1964)