Record details

• ISBN: 9780060092726
• ISBN: 0060092726
• ISBN: 0060092734
• Physical Description: 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
• Edition: [First Edition]
• Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, [2005]
• Copyright: ©2005

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Greenwillow book."

Formatted Contents Note:

The 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.

Target Audience Note:

820L Lexile

Target Age Group: 08 to 12. Ingram.

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.5 7 101361.

Awards Note:

Newbery Medal, 2006.

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Subject:

Identity (Philosophical concept) > Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen sixties > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction.
Nineteen sixties > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Friendships.

Genre:

Coming-of-age fiction
Fiction.