RING AROUND ROSE

Thirteen-year-old Rose Carlisle, a shy loner, is moving to a new town and a new school, a move that she is convinced will be awful. , While spending the summer with her grandmother at the old family mansion called Fineweather, Rose meets a girl named Ring, and they become fast friends. , The perfect summer is clouded by some unpleasant involvement with their nearest neighbor, Dooley Birdsong, and his &ldquo,wolf-dog.&rdquo, When Birdsong makes some accusations against Rose, she must use her intelligence and powers of deduction to try and prove her innocence.Rose learns to be more proactive and self-reliant, but she believes it&rsquo,s because Ring has told her what to do. , How will she survive after they say their final goodbyes?At summer&rsquo,s end, Rose&rsquo,s grandmother tells of a girl she met at Fineweather years ago. , She sounds a lot like Ring. , Could they be the same girl?_,