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199 pp.
| Eerdmans |
April, 2019 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8028-5513-8$16.00
(2)
4-6
In Spinelli's novel in verse, twelve-year-old Birdie's summer is disrupted by love. Her live-in grandmother tumbles for the new-senior-in-town; Birdie is on the verge of liking Scrabble pal Martin; and Birdie's widowed mother starts dating. The sorrows here are convincing but non-angsty, the families troubled but functional, the narrative voice charming but not too clever. This is classic middle grade, all the better for its old-fashioned flavor.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2019