Books by Sonia Garrett

Maddie is on top of the world. Her adaptation of Cinderella just won Best Stunt Action in the Young Filmmaker of the Year awards! But there's no time to celebrate-the science fair is approaching, and her friend Ivan's project is missing that special something. Maddie has just the solution: what if, instead of measuring how far humans can jump, Ivan were to measure how far people can be launched?Of course, tattletale Raquel can't let Maddie boost Ivan to the top so easily. She's soon clued in the exasperated Principal Richardson, who promptly clips Maddie's wings.Maddie may have lost the battle, but she's determined to win the war-and what better opportunity than the upcoming class play? After exchanging some scathing taunts, Maddie and Raquel settle on a bet: whoever's play is best gets to order the loser around for a whole month.Maddie will need something special to upstage the wily Raquel . . . and naturally, she has an idea: a dramatization of the Trojan Wars, complete with makeshift chariots, a ton of fake blood, and bickering gods. What could go wrong?Maddie Makes Money marks the return of the cheeky, fearsome Maddie, and is sure to delight mischievous kids while terrifying their wary parents!

Maddie's not your typical fifth-grader. With an electric skateboard, a stuntman dad, and a head full of crazy ideas, she often finds herself on the wrong side of Principal Richardsonparticularly when that tattletale Raquel is always trying to get her into trouble.After Maddie founds a playground society celebrating the noble art of falling onto heaped cardboard boxes, Principle Richardson challenges Maddie to please, please find a constructive outlet for her creativity. He knows just the thing: The Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.Unfortunately, things don't exactly get off to a good start: Maddie's adaptation of Red Riding Hood ends in an unscripted battle scene, and Rapunzel hits a wall when Maddie's best friend Leila is left dangling above the playground by her hair. With the deadline swiftly approaching and Raquel's smug taunting becoming too much to bear, Maddie will need every idea she can think of and every friend she can find to make sure her final movie, Cinderella, wows the judgesmaybe then Principal Richardson will get off her back.Maddie Makes a Movie is the hilarious, heart-warming debut by Sonia Garrett, and is a must for young readers with big ideas (as well as the parents who fear them!).