DINAH FOR PRESIDENT

Dinah

by Claudia Mills

Dinah Seabrooke, now in her first year of middle school, struggles to become a big fish in what seems like an ocean--and in the process discovers the value of recycling and of friendship with the elderly

126 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 1992

About the author

Claudia Mills is the author of Nixie Ness, Cooking Star, 7 x 9 = Trouble!, Zero Tolerance, Write This Down, and many other books for children. She was born in New York City in 1954. She received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, her master's degree from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. She also received an M.L.S. degree from the University of Maryland, with a concentration in children's literature. She had a second career as a professor of philosophy at the Colorado at Boulder, until leaving that career in 2014 to write full time. She now teaches in the graduate program in children's literature at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. All of her books have been written between 5 and 7 in the morning while drinking Swiss Miss hot chocolate.

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Reviews

[Makayla Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is the best book i've read in my entire 11 years on this planet!
-Makayla Wright

[Monica Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

No swearing, talks about mooning, otherwise clean.