| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Contents |
he catch -- Hector goes into a sponge state and has a satori -- Boys, dogs, science fiction -- Radio show -- Leg buds -- In the rhododendrons -- The fable of Lenny -- Easy basin wrench, or Debbie has a mechanical moment, too -- Guitar lessons -- Conversation in the dark: brilliant Eskimo thoughts -- Hector's first song -- Truck lessons -- Ravine -- Japanese chapter -- Guitar progress -- Home work -- At the Tastee-Freez on a Tuesday evening -- In and out of the cocoon -- Where the necklace went -- Hair -- Confession -- Wuthering Heights/Popular Mechanics -- The childhood friend -- Grosi -- Meanwhile -- Somewhere else -- Meanwhile, elsewhere -- Mrs. Bruning -- Elephants -- What Patty said when Debbie showed her the photo -- California of the mind -- Dan Persik's progress -- A pig roast -- Roasting the pig -- Sarong -- Flip-flop, necklace -- On the roof -- Lightning bugs. |
| Summary |
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.5 7. |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal, 2006. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Nineteen sixties -- Juvenile fiction.
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Nineteen sixties. |
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Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction.
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Self-perception. |
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence. |
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Individualism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Individualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0060092726 (trade) |
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9780060092726 (trade) |
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0060092734 (library binding) |
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9780060092733 (library binding) |
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