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Sister Spider Knows All

Autor Adrian Fogelin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2007 – vârsta de la 10 până la 13 ani

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For Roxanne, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother and her weekend job at the flea market. But outside this fragile weekend world, she's lost. A so-so student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her father's identity is a mystery. But then her cousin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Roxanne discovers her mother's teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and the possibilities for a different future.
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ISBN-13: 9781561453863
ISBN-10: 1561453862
Pagini: 209
Dimensiuni: 162 x 217 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Peachtree Publishers

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When Rox asks about the mother who left when she was three months old, her grandmother Mimi insists, "The three of us together, you, John Martin, and me, are family enough for anyone. A larger-than-life grrandmother and a twenty-three-year-old cousin are almost enough, especially when Rox adds her unofficial family: Danny Swain the Tire King, Spice Marie, Miss Louise, and the other vendors at the local flea market where she and Mimi spend their weekends. Still, Rox sometimes wonder, what happened to her mother? Why won't Mimi talk about her? But most of the time Rox has more immediate things on her mind. School is a torture. At best a so-so student, she hides out at the back of the classroom with the other "lard bricks" and waits for the weekend to take her back to the flea market. The balance of Rox's wold is upset when her cousin brings home a new girlfriend. Like the tornado that hits the flea market, Lucy shakes everything up, forcing Rox to see herslf with new eyes. It is Lucy's snooping that uncovers the diary that may answerall the questions Mimi won't. To meet the mother she's never known, all Rox has to do is read it.

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by Adrian Fogelin

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"Americans tend to avoid discussing class differences, and this charming story about a girl who lives in a trailer with her chain-smoking, obese grandmother is something out of the ordinary... The lines between the classes become somewhat blurred and we understand that life is pretty much that way, and that a loving, close family is a treasure whatever circumstances they are living in." Kliatt "Delivered in a wry voice that swings from laugh-out-loud funny to wrenching sadness, Rox's narrative is neither sentimental nor condescending, and details of place, people, and class conflict emerge in plain poetic imagery... " Booklist "...a richly drawn story of human dynamics, offering both support for people as they are and hope for their growth." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "A Best of 2003 for Young Readers: Dead-on dialogue and strong, complex characters." The Washington Post * 2003 Parents' Choice Recommended Award * 2003 Young Adult Top Forty List (PA)

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