MakeBelieve Daughter Author:Laura W. Douglas If you can write your age upside down and backward and still have it come out the same, you're off to a good start. There's at least one girl named Matilda in this book who can do just that. — If you can go places wearing a dog around your neck and make people think that he's only a fur scarf, you're pretty lucky. But there's another Matilda in t... more »his book who's been getting away with it for a long time!
If you've eer wondered what it's like to have a food faddist for a mother, an artist for a father, and a genius for a brother, there's still one more Matilda in this book whom you should know about.
That's right--three Matildas. But that's not all.
There's Mr. Confrere, who's in a predicament because of his Aunt Therese. And there're Tor and Alma Brackenbat, who ran Brackenbat's International Restaurant in New York City. Everybody lives in the apartments above the restaurant.
And then...there's the gray man.
There's something very mysterious about the gray man. He follows the three Matildas around. He tries to break into apartments. He's bound to make trouble. Read on and see...« less