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Didn’t know middle grade book can be so good and soooo interesting 🤩

Magnolia watched from the hole in her sheet, wincing from the force of each word. If the woman had speech bubbles, they would've been spiky like sea urchins, jutting out like spears.

She poured blue liquid laundry detergent into a cup and called it alien saliva.

girl who insisted on insulting her home, but then Mister Pants trotted over and licked Iris's hand, and Iris did not say "Ew, she said, "Hello to you too," and Magnolia warmed up to her in that instant.

They made paper sailor hats and pretended they were in a submarine, staring into the washing machine window like it was a dark and stormy sea. She was even allowed to paint a fire-breathing dragon on the laundry delivery cart attached to his bicycle, but it came out looking like a lizard barfing orange juice.

Ten was a strong, two-digit number that looked like a sword and a shield that belonged to someone who was about to conquer the world.