Liu, Carol
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Carol grew up in Rhode Island, enjoying coffee milk and ignoring R's in words—until she met Marybeth, a New Yorker who was studying to be a speech therapist at the University of Rhode Island. Marybeth first fixed Carol's speech, and then they became best friends. They wrote Arlene on the Scene to help find a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, which affects both Marybeth and her daughter, Grace. Proceeds from this book will be donated to the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation to fund CMT research, develop new treatments, and hopefully find a cure.
Faced with starting fourth grade in her new leg braces, Arlene sets out to prove her "abilities" by entering a frenzied school election.
Arlene has plans—BIG, BIG plans—to become the youngest student government officer in Greenwood Elementary history. She'll be the biggest thing to hit Rhode Island since the invention of coffee milk. Sure, she wears purple leg braces and has a weird-sounding disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, but that won't stop her. Onward she marches, bending rules and blasting stereotypes in an effort to win no matter what.
Join Arlene for a wild ride through elementary school politics, an adventure packed with friendships, fierce competition, and some slippery situations. But it's a most unexpected hurdle — her own unfair judgments of others — that helps Arlene realize the value in embracing differences.