Daphne Higginbotham Battles the Fifth Grade

Daphne Higginbotham Battles the Fifth Grade is a tender, uplifting story about the power of formative friendships.  Daphne is an international adoptee from China living with her family in small-town Georgia.  She just wants to survive the fifth grade but her best friend has autism, she's being targeted by a bully named Agnes and her teacher may be a zombie!  This is a humorous tale of an imaginative, outspoken, misfit.  No matter what happens Daphne won't give up and along the way she'll learn to see familiar people in new ways.  Daphne and her friends can overcome anything together!