Great Middle Grade Reads discussion

Hi there! I’m looking for a book I read when I was a kid about 10 years ago or so. In the book there’s two sisters. I think the big girls name is anna and the younger is Samantha. I’m not sure. But I do remember that they had moved into a old house with their parents. The older girl was always like the star of the show always pretty and good at everything. While the smaller had like short chopped hair or something like that and wasn’t good at anything. She was mostly jealous of the sister. I remember that on the first day of new school the smaller sister took like a bag of dead flies to school in her pencil purse and one of her classmates saw her. Also I remember at the end of the book the school had a play or something of the sort and the big sister was the star. However she and the little sis were playing and she fell through the laundry chute or something like that and broke her leg and I think at the play the lil sis came through for her and the book ends like that where the little sister finally got the spotlight for once.

Well, I googled 'Anna Samantha old house sisters children's book' and it offered Twelve Minutes to Midnight, The Cottingley Fairies, Some Kind of Happiness and The House by the Marsh, all from Amazon. I don't know if any of them are old enough for you.

I've linked those to their Goodreads pages, so you could check the blurbs for them.

There's also this great post from the New York Public Library site, https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/11/22/... that might help.

It doesn't ring a bell to me, but the theme is familiar :)

Thank you so so so much! I appreciate you. Going to check these links right now.❤️

Kat wrote: "Thank you so so so much! I appreciate you. Going to check these links right now.❤️"

Anything? I figured that "bringing a bag of flies to school" would lead me somewhere on Google, but nope! Nothing!

Leeann wrote: "Kat wrote: "Thank you so so so much! I appreciate you. Going to check these links right now.❤️"

Anything? I figured that "bringing a bag of flies to school" would lead me somewhere on Google, but ..."

With any luck, when the holiday season is over, one of our many librarian members will see this and find a link in their memories!