- Family, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction
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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jerry Spinelli
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Hachette Audio
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316166478
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