Richard Peck's books featuring Blossom Culp. Probably too much for kids <8, though, and there is a lot of emotional content that would be highly disturbing.

(I was probably about that the first one that I read, and a lot of it simply didn't make sense to me at the time, or didn't resonate with me because I was not yet an adolescent.)

Of course, this is the path that led me to read Peter Straub novels at 13-14, which I think are so not appropriate content-wise for a girl that age. Just so others know that. LOL.

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