Stella Batts: Something Blue

—Courtney

To V and S

—Jennifer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data • Sheinmel, Courtney. • Stella Batts: something blue • written by Courtney Sheinmel, illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell. • pages cm. – • (Stella Batts ; book 6) • Summary: “Stella and her family drive to Los Angeles to attend her aunt Laura’s wedding. Stella is excited to be a flower girl but things don’t go as planned. She accidently sprays paint on her aunt’s wedding dress and the daughter of the man marrying Aunt Laura wants to run away”– • Provided by publisher. • ISBN 978-1-58536-851-8 (hard cover) – ISBN 978-1-58536-852-5 (paperback) • [1. Weddings–Fiction. 2. Flower girls–Fiction. 3. Family life–California–Fiction.] • I. Bell, Jennifer (Jennifer A.), 1977-illustrator. • II. Title. III. Title: Something blue. • PZ7.S54124Su 2014 • [Fic]–dc23 • 2013024898