Addie's Forever Friend

Addie #1

by Laurie Lawlor, Helen Cogancherry (Illustrator)

Addie Mills knows she is not a brave person. She is afraid to learn to swim. She's nervous around firecrackers. She's very worried that her father will decide to move the whole family from Iowa to Dakota, where it's wild and dangerous.Addie is not like her best friend, Eleanor, who can swim like a fish and is always ready to do something exciting. Now Eleanor has daring plans for the Fourth of July -- will Addie go along? Can Addie and Eleanor be friends forever?

Addie's Forever Friend is the prequel to these other books about Addie and her family: Addie Across the Prairie, Addie's Dakota Winter, Addie's Long Summer, and George on His Own. Laurie Lawlor's other books include: Daniel Boone, The Real Johnny Appleseed and How to Survive Third Grade. She lives in Illinois. Helen Cogancherry also illustrated Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?, I Am Not a Crybaby!, and I'm Deaf, and It's Okay. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Genres: Historical Fiction

124 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Laurie Lawlor grew up in a family enamored with the theater. Along with her five brothers and sisters she spent summers in a summer stock repertory company in a small mountain town in Colorado that was run by their mother (costumer, cook, accountant, and resident psychiatrist) and their father (artistic director).

Reviews

[Meghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Addie is a young girl who isn't very brave. Addie doesn't know how to swim and doesn't want to swim. Addie is afraid that her father will never come home and that her family wont be able to move back into their house. Addie's best friend is a very brave out going girl. But she gets in a lot of trouble when she brings a fire cracker into the house and decides to put it under Addie's aunt's chair. This leads up to her running away and Addie might just have to swim to save her.