Here's Lily (The Lily Series)($5.58Value)

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Grow with the spirited, sometimes awkward, but always charming Lily as she learns what real beauty is . In this fun, entertaining story, readers meet awkward sixth grader Lily Robbins who, after receiving a compliment about her looks from a woman in the modeling business, becomes obsessed with her appearance and with becoming a model. As she sets her sights on winning the model search fashion show, she exchanges her rock and feather collection for lip gloss, fashion magazines, and a private “club” with her closest friends. But when the unthinkable happens the night before the fashion show, Lily learns a valuable lesson about real beauty. This best-selling, biblically based fiction series for girls―with a fresh new look and updated content―addresses social issues and coming-of-age topics, all with the spunk and humor of Lily Robbins as she fumbles her way through unfamiliar territory. As readers come to love Lily and her stories, they’ll also benefit from the companion nonfiction books that will help them through their own growing pains. Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee. Here's Lily By Nancy Rue Thomas Nelson Copyright © 2012 Nancy Rue All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4003-1949-7 Chapter One Leo, don't let it touch you, man! It'll burn your skin off!" Shad Shifferdecker grabbed his friend's arm and yanked him away from the water fountain just as Lily Robbins leaned over to take a drink. Leo barely missed being brushed by Lily's long flaming red hair. Lily straightened up and drove her vivid blue eyes into Shad. "I need for you to quit making fun of my hair," she said through gritted teeth. She always gritted her teeth when she talked to Shad Shifferdecker. "Why can't you ever just say 'shut up'?" Shad said. "Why do you always have to sound like a counselor or something?" Lily didn't know what a counselor sounded like. She'd never been to one. If Shad had, it hadn't helped much as far as she was concerned. He was still rude. "I'm just being polite," Lily said. Leo blinked his enormous gray eyes at Shad. "Shad, can you say 'polite'?" "Shut up," Shad said and gave Leo a shove that landed him up against Daniel Tibbetts, his other partner in seeing how hateful a sixth-grade boy can be to a sixth-grade girl. Just then Ms. Gooch appeared at the head of the line, next to the water fountain, and held up her right hand. Hands shot up along the line as mouths closed and most everybody craned their necks to see her. Ms. Gooch was almost shorter than Lily. "All right, people." Lily was glad she didn't call them "boys and girls" the way the librarian did. "We're going to split up now. Boys will come with me. Girls will go into the library." "How come?" Shad blurted out as usual. "The girls are going to a grooming workshop," Ms. Gooch said. She raised an eyebrow. Ms. Gooch could say more with one black eyebrow than most people could with a whole sentence. "Did you want to go with the girls and learn how to fix your hair and have great skin, Shad? I'm sure they'd love to have you." "No, we would not," Lily wanted to say. But she never blurted it out. She just turned to Reni and rolled her eyes. Reni rolled hers back. That was the thing about best friends, Lily had decided a while back. You could have entire conversations with each other just by rolling your eyes or saying one key word that sent you both into giggle spasms. "No way!" Shad said. "I don't want to look like no girl!" " Any girl," Ms. Gooch said. "All right, ladies, go on to the library. Come back with beauty secrets!" Lily took off on Reni's heels in the direction of the library. Behind her, she heard Shad say, just loud enough for her to hear, "That grooming lady better be pretty good if she's gonna do anything with Lily!" "Yeah, dude!" Leo said. Daniel just snorted. "Ignore them," Reni whispered to Lily as they pushed through the double doors to the inside of the school. "My mama says when boys say things like that, it means they like you." "Gross me out and make me icky," Lily said, wrinkling her nose. Besides, that was easy for Reni to say. Lily thought Reni was about the cutest girl in the whole sixth grade. She was black (Ms. Gooch said they were supposed to call her "African American," but Reni said that took too long to say), and her skin was the smooth, rich color of Lily's dad's coffee when he put a couple drops of milk in it. Mine's more like the milk without the coffee! Lily thought. And even though Reni's hair was a hundred times curlier than Lily's naturally frizzy mass of auburn, it was always in little pigtails or braids or something. Reni's hair was under control anyway. Lily's brother Art said Lily's hair always looked like it was enough for thirty-seven pe