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Jerry Spinelli

Nine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-old Primrose lives with her childlike, fortuneteller mother, and a framed picture is the only evidence of the father she never knew. Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives. This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.

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Author

Jerry Spinelli

Pages

224

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published Date

2007-06-01

ISBN

0316006653 9780316006651

Ratings

Google: 4.5

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"Super short read! Chapters are 1 or 2 pages. This app says it was 98 pages. But mine was like 200 pages with huge fought. I'm not gona lie, it's not the most interesting and the characters keep doing stupid stuff, but it's somewhat justified because our main characters are 9 and 13 years old. "

Shea Witz

"If I’m honest, up until the last 50 to 60 pages, I found the main characters, David and Primrose, pretty hate-able. At around 40 pages left, I finally started liking the characters and ended the book wishing them a happy life past the end of the book. I dropped reading this book 6 years ago and picked it back up tonight. I read it in a few hours. My copy was 220 pages long. Would read again."