Cassidy's Guide to Everyday Etiquette (and Obfuscation)

Torture by etiquette? Meet 11-year-old Cassidy as she spends a summer trapped in manners classes in this hilarious new coming of age middle-grade novel by a seasoned veteran. Eleven-teen-year-old Cassidy has just been bequeathed a gift by her late great-grandmother. Unfortunately, the gift is manners lessons because Cassidy, as her Great Grandma Reed might have said, has none. Part girl/part tomboy, Cassidy just wants to hang out with best pal, Jack. Instead, she will be at Miss Melton-Mowry's School of Poise and Purpose learning "the art of polite conversation," among other things. But after Cassidy decides to amuse herself and pull one of her classic pranks, causing repercussions, it's time to face facts: she's growing up, and that means sometimes doing something for someone else is more important than doing what you want.

Veteran middle-grade author Sue Stuaffacher returns with this laugh-out-loud heroine who learns the hard way that manners do matter, and that people can change.