Lights, Camera, Amalee

When Amalee’s grandmother dies, she inherits a very strange object: a huge champagne bottle filled with over a thousand dollars’ worth of change. Amalee is told to spend the money on something important, so she decides to make a movie about endangered species. Soon there’s as much going on behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera, as Amalee deals with a new friend, a very cute older boy, her wacky family friends, and a host of other challenges. She also discovers something she never expected to find—a link with her mother, who disappeared and died when she was very little.Once again, with clear-eyed prose and moving insight, Dar Williams proves to be one of the brightest new lights in middle-grade fiction.Williams, Dar is the author of 'Lights, Camera, Amalee', published 2008 under ISBN 9780439803533 and ISBN 0439803535.