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Now a seventh grader, Jason finds out the hard way just how different things are where ninth graders are the kings.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Jerry Spinelli
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316807098
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First sentence
“ONE BY ONE MY STEPFATHER TOOK THE CHICKEN BONES OUT OF the bag and laid them on the kitchen table.”
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