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| Genre/Form: | Realistic fiction Juvenile fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Katherine Hannigan |
| ISBN: | 9780061968730 ) 0061968730 ((trade bdg.)) 9780061968747 ((lib. bdg.)) 0061968749 ((lib. bdg.) |
| OCLC Number: | 643762088 |
| Target Audience: | Grades 3-7. |
| Description: | 360 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Katherine Hannigan. |
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Fall in love with a tiny girl named Delly Pattison
Delly Pattison is constantly in trouble. Her exuberance leads her on "Dellyventures" that only her little brother RB seems to really understand. To Delly's stunned amazement, she gets into so much trouble, in fact, that she's about to be sent away to a special school for troubled kids. But...
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Delly Pattison is constantly in trouble. Her exuberance leads her on "Dellyventures" that only her little brother RB seems to really understand. To Delly's stunned amazement, she gets into so much trouble, in fact, that she's about to be sent away to a special school for troubled kids. But how can Delly stop being Delly?
One day there is a new kid in school, Ferris Boyd, who doesn't talk and is never, ever to be touched. Ferris is a "mysturiosity" to Delly and must therefore be investigated. Their unlikely friendship saves both of them.
This is a book for all those children who are labeled "bad" by adults who fail to understand them or recognize a lack of impulse control transforming into depression. I wanted to crawl inside the pages and scoop these children up and rescue them, save them from the pain of being misfits.
For readers' advisors: character and story doorways, Delly's language of invented words is another doorway, and be aware that the book deals with child abuse
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