title: The Milly Stories
author: DK Publishing
description: Grade 4-6?A dozen connected episodes, this first novel tells of a year in the life of 11-year-old orphan Milly Moore of Bentwood, MA. She lives in the funeral-parlor home of easy-going Uncle Edgar and bossy, opinionated Aunt Gloria. The book opens with Aunt Gloria's viewing following her fatal heart attack. Milly continues to hear her aunt's helpful advice as a sort of conscience, until a new viewing more to the woman's liking finally puts her spirit to rest a year later. Meanwhile, Milly's new friend uses a Weirdness Index ("A scale of one to ten. Ten is the most weird") to rate the people she meets. Many of Bentwood's residents, including Milly's grandmother who preaches religion to bikers from her Harley-Davidson, rank close to ten. The book is vaguely reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (Viking, 1987), as each chapter unveils another quirky town character. What Milly learns in the year's span is that peculiarity is often in the eye of the beholder. This awareness of each person's individuality helps the girl to understand and accept herself, and makes her able to put Aunt Gloria and her advice to rest. The somewhat heavy-handed delivery of the theme is balanced by Milly's delightful, humorous voice.?Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME<br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Title Page**
  
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  **RACE AGAINST ME**
  
   **My Story**
  
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  **By**
  
   **Dwain Chambers**
  
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  **Publisher Information**
  
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