Beverly Right Here

<p><b>Revisiting once again the world of <i>Raymie Nightingale </i>and <i>Louisiana's Way Home </i>No.1 <i>New York Times</i>bestselling author Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking inescapably tenderhearted Beverly Tapinski.</b><br><i>Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.</i><br><i>This was what Beverly wanted &#150; </i><i>what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay away.</i><br><br>Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times but that was when she was just a kid. By now she figures it&#146;s not running away ... it&#146;s leaving. Determined to make it on her own Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog Buddy now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie whom she left without a word; and her mum Rhonda who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn&#146;t want to depend on anyone and she definitely doesn&#146;t want anyone to depend on her. But despite her best efforts she can&#146;t help forming connections with the people around her &#150; and gradually she learns to see herself through their eyes. In a touching funny and fearless conclusion to her sequence of novels about the beloved Three Rancheros No. 1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Kate DiCamillo tells the story of a character who will break your heart and put it back together again.</p>