num_pages: 336
description: Every day in Fawn Creek Louisiana is exactly the same--until Orchid Mason arrives. This contemporary school story set in small-town Louisiana is about friendship family deception and being true to yourself and your dreams.There are twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek Middle School. They've been together all their lives. And in this small factory town where everyone knows everything about everyone that's not necessarily a great thing.There are thirteen desks in the seventh-grade classroom. That's because Renni Dean's father got a promotion and the family moved to Grand Saintlodge the nearest big town. Renni's desk is empty but Renni still knows their secrets; is still pulling their strings.When Orchid Mason arrives and slips gracefully into Renni's chair the other seventh graders don't know what to think. Orchid--who was born in New York City but just moved to Fawn Creek from Paris--seems to float. Her dress skims the floor. She's wearing a flower behind her ear.Fawn Creek Middle might be small but it has its tightly knit groups--the self-proclaimed God Squad the jocks the outsiders--just like anyplace else. Who will claim Orchid Mason? Who will save Orchid Mason? Or will Orchid Mason save them?
language: English
title: Those Kids from Fawn Creek
publisher: Greenwillow Books