Addie's Forever Friend

Addie Mills knows she is not a brave person. She is afraid to learn to swim. She's nervous around firecrackers. She's very worried that her father will decide to move the whole family from Iowa to Dakota, where it's wild and dangerous.Addie is not like her best friend, Eleanor, who can swim like a fish and is always ready to do something exciting. Now Eleanor has daring plans for the Fourth of July -- will Addie go along? Can Addie and Eleanor be friends forever? Addie's Forever Friend is the prequel to these other books about Addie and her family: Addie Across the Prairie, Addie's Dakota Winter, Addie's Long Summer, and George on His Own. Laurie Lawlor's other books include: Daniel Boone, The Real Johnny Appleseed and How to Survive Third Grade. She lives in Illinois. Helen Cogancherry also illustrated Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?, I Am Not a Crybaby!, and I'm Deaf, and It's Okay. She lives in Pennsylvania.