The Pinballs (Apple Paperbacks) Paperback - 2004
by Byars, Betsy
- Used
- Paperback
Winner of multiple awards, this novel follows three lonely foster children asthey learn to care about themselves and each other.
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Details
- Title The Pinballs (Apple Paperbacks)
- Author Byars, Betsy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date 2004-08-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # BRG-29_4_530
- ISBN 9780064401982 / 0064401987
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.22 x 0.32 in (19.51 x 13.26 x 0.81 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 600
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Foster home care
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76041518
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid.
Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own Iives.
Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her beter judgement, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own lives.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 06/12/1987, Page 0