- Fiction, Diaries, High schools, Schools
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
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Earnest, spare, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Beverly Cleary
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, paul o. zelinsky, Avon Books
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780785717232
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“This afternoon, as Mom was leaving for work at the hospital, she said for the millionth time, "Leigh, please clean up your room.”
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