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by: Jerry Spinelli
Amazon.com's Price: $5.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780316166478
ISBN: 0316166472
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 87355
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Classic Spinelli
Although not as captivating as Stargirl or Loser, this book is classic Spinelli and great for young adult readers. I would recommend those books with more vigor, but for $5, it doesn't get better than this story of real friendship.
Rating:  - another masterpiece from the novelist for children
David, nine years old, has just lost his mother to an accident at work when he meets Primrose, thirteen years old, pretending to be dead with an egg in her mouth at the Easter Egg Hunt. So begins their antagonistic, moody, but deep friendship between an angry little kid trying to understand his loss and an angry teenage girl trying to deal with her weird and distant mother. Full of Spinelli's characteristic weird, true, and human characters and those little quirky things that make up childhood and ... Read More
Rating:  - Eggs from an Educator
Eggs was my first Jerry Spinelli read, which is rather surprising considering two key points: (1) I am an avid reader and (2) I teach elementary school. Overall, I loved the characterization and detail Spinelli exercised throughout the storyline. I found pleasure and comfort in becoming familiar with the two main characters, David (age 7) and Primrose (age 13). However, at times these characters were difficult to be fond of considering their negative outlooks on life. As an educator, I read children's ... Read More
Rating: - Eggs
David is a 9 year old boy who lost his mother in an accident. He moves to Perkiomen to live with his grandmother, only seeing his father on the weekend. Primrose is a 13 year old who never knew her father and whose mother is eccentric to say the least. Jerry Spinelli brings these two characters together forming an unlikely, but entertaining pair. Their love/hate relationship will hit home with anyone who reads it. While Eggs gets off to a slow start, it is well worth reading it through to the end. ... Read More
Rating: - Jerry Spinelli is BACK!
I love Jerry Spinelli... I love Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Loser, Crash,Knots in My Yo-Yo String, but not so much Fourth Grade Rats and Wringer.
JS knows what kids today are interested in reading about... real issues.... things they have experienced and characters like they are or know. I wasn't sure if JS could successfully recreate another intense, thought-provoking, touching and real storyline like he did with Stargirl.. but he has!
Eggs is a story of two children both angry at the world due ... Read More
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