- Books and reading, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction
Mongoose, Brenda, Sonseray, and April have nothing in common...until a mysterious blue card appears as if by magic and begins to change each of their lives. None of them guesses it at first, but that strange blue card will be their ticket to the past--and to a future that they never imagined. In stories that range from humorous to heartbreaking, Newbery-award-winner Jerry Spinelli reveals the amazing possibilities lurking behind library doors
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Earnest, spare, effortless and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jerry Spinelli
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc., Paw Prints, Scholastic
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780780787728
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 30 want to.
“Fingers trembling, eyes on the man at the cash register, Mongoose snatched the Milky Way bar and stuck it in his coat pocket.”
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