![]() Louisiana needs the prize money to rescue her cat, Archie, from the Very Friendly Animal Shelter, where “they will feed Archie three times a day and scratch him behind the ears exactly the way he likes,” according to her eccentric grandmother. At the first lesson she meets Louisiana Elefante, a frail girl with “swampy lungs” who is also determined to win the contest. ![]() Raymie decides to learn baton-twirling for the talent portion of the contest. ![]() She will win the 1975 Little Miss Florida Central Tire contest, and when her father sees the news stories about her triumph, he will leave the dental hygienist he has run off with and come back to his newly famous daughter. In Kate DiCamillo’s newest middle-grade novel, Ramie Nightingale, ten-year-old Raymie Clarke has cooked up a plan to convince her father to return home. ![]()
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