Wringer

English

Series: Joanna Cotler Bks.

ISBN: 0060249137

EAN: 9780060249137

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Violence/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings/Juvenile Fiction / General/Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 09/30/1997

Age Range: 8-12

Synopsis: He did not want to be a wringer.Palmer LaRue is rnning out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, hes dreaded the day he turns ten, the day hes supposed to become a wringer.This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker lace? Call him a name? Stand up and fight?Palmer thinks that becoming a wringer is something he cant stop...until the day a visitor shows up at his window.It was simply, merely there, a whisper of featherwings, reminding him of the moment he dreaded above all others.Should he open the window?In his dreams the moment had already come.Should he invite fear into his room?In his dreams he looks down to find his hands around the neck of the pigeon.What is it like to be hated?For much of his life Palmer Larue had felt he was standing at the edge of a black, bottomless hole. On the fifty-ninth day before his tenth birthday, he fell in.Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, hes dreaded the day he turns ten -- the day hell take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day hell be a wringer. But Palmer doesnt want to be a wringer. Its one of the first things he learned about himself and its one of the biggest things he has to hide. In Palmers town being a wringer is an honor, a tradition passed down from father to son. Palmer cant stop himself from being a wringer just like he cant stop himself from growing one year older, just like he cant stand up to a whole town -- right? Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinellis most powerful novel yet is a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid.

Awards: Buckeye Childrens Book Award – null  Carolyn W. Field Award (Pennsylvania Library Association) – null  Charlie May Simon Childrens Book Award – null  Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award – null  American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null  Black-Eyed Susan Book Award – null  Colorado Childrens Book Award – null  Flicker Tale Childrens Book Award – null  Georgia Childrens Book Award – null  Great Lakes Great Books Award – null  Newbery Medal – null  Prairie Pasque Award – null  SCASL Book Award (South Carolina) – null  School Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  William Allen White Childrens Book Award – null  Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award – null  Young Readers Choice Award – null 

Wringer

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.84 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 7.78 inches

Weight: 12.84 oz

Pages: 240