Criss Cross
Author(s): Lynne Rae Perkins
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good, to her,soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds another (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell), she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy), she learns to drive shift in a truck (illegally), she saves a life (directly connected to being able to drive, thus proving something), she takes a bus ride to another town (in order to understand what it feels like to be from "elsewhere"), she meets a boy (who truly is from "elsewhere"), but mostly she hangs out with her friends: Patty, Hector, Lenny, and Phil. Their paths cross. Their stories crisscross.
And in Lynne Rae Perkins's remarkable book, a girl and her wish grow up. Illustrated throughout with blackÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂandÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂwhite pictures, comics, and photographs by the author.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- : Harper Trophy (imprint of HarperCollins Children's Book Group, Div of HarperCollins US)
- : 0.24
- : 01 February 2008
- : 197mm X 134mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lynne Rae Perkins
- : Paperback
- : 813.6
- : 352
- : Illustrations