He holds his hand up to her face. "Celebrate this? I hate this. I hate this every day." "You don't mean that," Lydie protests. "When the Gypsies come, you'll understand." "Don't you get it, Lydie? They never come for gimps like me." For a small town, Warsaw Junction has a lot of secrets. Who could guess that Augie Knapp, the kid who hides his deformed hand in a glove, has collected most of them...and hides them in an old suitcase? No one even suspects Augie has a secret of his own until Lydie Rose Meisenheimer blows into town and signs up for sixth grade. Driving a...
He holds his hand up to her face. "Celebrate this? I hate this. I hate this every day." "You don't mean that," Lydie protests. "When the Gypsie...
Lots of kids think of running away from home. But what's a kid to do when his home runs away from him? That's what happens to twelve-year-old George Honiker when his sister and brother-in-law move out of the Versailles Trailer Park while George is at school. Is it the end of George's world? Well, hardly For the quick-witted, resourceful, and upwardly mobile George, it's the chance of a lifetime. Faster than you can say "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," George bunks in with his classmate Rennie Whitfield. Rennie just happens to be the richest kid in town. A motorboat...
Lots of kids think of running away from home. But what's a kid to do when his home runs away from him? That's what happens to twelve-year-o...