Eliza Monkton just can't seem to catch a break.
Not only have her parents separated, but Eliza has to move to the small town of Blue Moon with her mother and little brother...while leaving her father behind. She also has a fourth grade teacher who seems to hate her, and no one wants to be her friend.
But all that changes when she is sent to Mrs. Peach's classroom. There, Eliza gets a chance to be her inquisitive self in a special program called "GAT." She also meets a group of older students with unusual interests-including one with a collection of vacuum cleaners and another obsessed with the color red.
When Eliza and her fellow misfits learn that the man who built Mrs. Peach's house disappeared without a trace, they decide to take on this mysterious cold case. No one else has solved the mystery, but maybe they can...even if Mrs. Peach's house is a little spooky.
Author S. B. Hibbard gives young readers a treat with this middle-grade mystery novel centered around a group of students with exceptional abilities.
And while they solve the mystery, they discover that being different isn't always a bad thing!
About the Author: S. B. Hibbard knows what it's like to be the new girl in class. Growing up in a military family, she experienced it eight times in her first twelve years of school.
Hibbard went on to teach after earning her psychology degree at Duke University. She has been a classroom teacher in several grades and also an itinerant teacher of gifted students, working with students in different schools. She knows what it's like to teach a group of exceptional students like those who star in her book, Misfits of Blue Moon.
Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines, and she has also had creative curriculum work published by McDonald Publishing.
Hibbard currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband.
