Grounded

A middle grade novel about a 12-year-old girl dealing with loss who uncovers a rather grisly scam involving a crematorium.After her brother sister and father die in a plane crash Daralynn Oakland receives 237 dolls from well-wishers resulting in her nickname: Dolly. But dolls are little comfort to a twelve-year-old girl whose world is rocked by the dramatic changes in her life including her angry grieving mother''s new job as a hairstylist at the local funeral home. Dolly gets a job too where she accidentally invents a fashionable new haircut. But in Grounded by Kate Klise her real work begins when a crematorium comes to town and someone has to save a dying business solve a burning mystery and resuscitate the broken hearts in Digginsville Missouri population 402.