Ages 7 to 9 years. This is a fresh and funny look at the life of a not-so-ordinary girl. Bernadette’s imagination is so big, she manages to win a prize at the science fair even though she’s too young to enter it: so big, she inspires everyone she meets to turn everyday events into adventures. Here are ingenious strategies to survive school lunches, solve a library mystery, plant a secret garden and travel the world from Grandma’s living room.