Eggs
Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
By Jerry Spinelli
Nine-year-old David recently lost his mother to a freak accident, and his salesman father is constantly on the road.
David is left in the care of his grandmother but he just cannot let her take the role of his mother, and treats her very mean.
Then he meets sarcastic and bossy 13-year-old Primrose who lives with her strange fortuneteller mother. David and Primrose have a love/hate relationship. Eventually they help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
This powerful, quirky novel about two very funny and hurting children has much to say about friendship, loss, and the reality of how our lives are always changing.
Although the cover is kind of bland this book should not be judged…
by its cover! Good story for boys and girls grades 4 and up. I just love Jerry Spinelli’s characters. They seem to be normal kids, with some unique qualities just trying to figure out life.
I give this four stars! Try some of his other stories, books by Jerry Spinelli