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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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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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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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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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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