Eggs
by Jerry Spinelli
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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. Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
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Family, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Friendship, Families, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Security (psychology), fiction, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Grief, fiction, Family life, fiction, Childrens, Large type books, Motherless families, Fatherless familiesShowing 5 featured editions. View all 17 editions?
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This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.
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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. Despite their differences, David and Primrose forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives. This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery.
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