Come on Get Happy: A Young Girl's Odyssey

COME ON GET HAPPY is the first-person narrative story of a bright sixth grader, Rose J. Smith who becomes obsessed with studying happiness as a science. She tells her mother she despises the simplistic song as the way people become happy. She is convinced there is more to it--more effort is needed. She devours library books on the subject written by social scientists who have studied countries and states looking for ways people become--and sometimes stay--happy. Despite her insistence to wo...