Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() She becomes the target of Amanda, who is beautiful, stylish, and very cruel. Elise struggles to make new friends while keeping her old ones. They are bullied, they don’t fit in, and Franklin starts acting very babyish. Elise and Franklin start sixth grade and everything feels wrong. ![]() ![]() She is anxious about how she will look the following day, the first day of school. One day, during a game of Knights, Elise falls down and scrapes her legs. She and Franklin, her best friend, have spent the summer playing for hours in the woods and fields of their farms. Elise, eleven years old as summer vacation is ending, is preparing to enter middle school. As the novel opens, Elise is living with her Aunt Bessie and her Uncle Hugh because her parents have long been dead. An emotionally authentic coming-of-age story, Eight Keys presents layered characters and relationships that portray the uncertainties of adolescence. The key unlocks one of the eight enigmatic doors upstairs in the barn, sending her on a journey of discovery about her family and herself. Soon after she turns twelve, Elise receives a key that was left to her by her father. Behind the house where Elise grew up is a barn with eight mysteriously locked doors on the second floor that have always puzzled her. Suzanne LaFleur’s 2011 novel, Eight Keys, follows Elise Bertrand, who has always lived in a large house with her loving aunt and uncle because her parents died when she was very young. ![]()
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