Nellie Cameron Author:Michele Murray Nellie Cameron did not look forward to Mondays and to going to school - not with a sharp-nosed third grade teacher waiting to tell her how dumb she was for being unable to read. Nellie didn't think she was dumb. Not as smart as her brother, Sam, maybe. But not dumb. Only reading was like a mountain she could not cross. SHe could see the top... more » and it was beautiful but she had no idea how to get there. Then one special Monday brought Miss Lacey and her reading clinic to school, and Nellie, though suspicious, began to hope. Set in Washington, D.C., Nellie Cameron is a children's novel in the classic tradition, plunging readers at once into a world of lively action and sympathetic characters.« less