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Paperback Eggs Book

ISBN: 0316166472

ISBN13: 9780316166478

Eggs

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Eggs is a quirky and moving novel about two very complicated, damaged children. 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. Primrose lives with her unstable, childlike, fortuneteller mother, and the only evidence of the father she never knew is a framed picture. Despite their age difference (David is 9, Primrose is 13), they forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
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Customer Reviews

5 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Eggs

A sudden tragic loss, like that of a deeply loved family member, is often hard to deal with and difficult to overcome, even as adults. How is a nine-year old boy supposed to cope with such a loss? Jerry Spinelli attempts to explain in his newest novel, Eggs. David wasn't scared when he uncovered the dead girl under a pile of leaves during an Easter egg hunt. In fact, he was relieved. To this dead girl, he told all his deepest...

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Rated 5 stars
Symbolism and Kids

Some have claimed this book is a bookclub's dream. I'd go a step further and say that Eggs is a book that would serve as a great teaching tool for children to talk and learn about symbolism. Although the eggs, the painting of the van, and the stuffed animal are a little on the obvious side when it comes to symbols, they're just right for children and young adults. The only problem? I don't remember the books I *had* to...

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Unsual and Awesome

Okay, so I used to like happy books. Books where two people meet and everything is perfect and it's all daisies and sunshine. I used to think that was great. But now that I've got my nose in a Jerry Spinelli novel very often these days I see books and the world in a whole new light. One part of "Eggs" is dreamlike, whimsical (like "Stargirl" and "Love, Stargirl" which I loved for that very reason) and part of it is angry and...

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Rated 5 stars
EGGS is a delicate tale which will appeal to both preteen and teen leisure readers interested in tal

David and Primrose are from broken homes, and fragile and lonely when they meet. Despite their differences and fears they form an uncertain friendship - and face a quest for the truth that will change them both. EGGS is a delicate tale which will appeal to both preteen and teen leisure readers interested in tales of evolving friendships.

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Rated 5 stars
An egg is quiet?

You read enough of an author and you begin to get ideas about them. And if that author in question cuts a wide swath about them, the urge to slot them in a specific space grows strong. Jerry Spinelli cuts such a swath, yet all I'd read of him until now was a little Maniac Magee here and a touch of Stargirl there. Books that are nice enough in their own way but that don't really make my pulse pound any faster. There is a blessing...

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