"So we got in the car and drove to that fried chicken place and picked up a bucket of fried chicken.Then we drove by the ocean and ate the chicken with rain sliding down the windshield and waves breaking on the rocks. There were little cartons of mashed potatoes and gravy in the bucket of chicken, bu"
"” You' ve grown," he said which is what grownups always say when they don't know what else to say to kids."
"She said I had to read it. The class laughed and Miss Martinez smiled, but she didn't smile when I came to the part about your favorite animal was a purple monster who ate children who sent authors long lists of questions for reports instead of learning to use the library."
"Nobody stole anything from my lunch today because I ate it on the way to school."
"If I eat my lunch on the way to school, I get hungry in the afternoon. Today I didn't so the two stuffed mushrooms Mom packed in my lunch were gone at lunch period. My sandwichwas still there so I didn't starve to death, but I sure missed those mushrooms."
"I finished Beggar Bears in two nights. It is a really good book. At first I was surprised because it wasn't funny like your other books, but then I got to thinking (you said authors should think) and decided a book doesn't have to be funny to be good, although it often helps.This book did not need t"
"Dad pointed out how hawks sit on telephone wires waiting for little animals to get run over so they won't have to bother to hunt. Dad says civilization is ruining hawks. He was hauling a gondola full of tomatoes that day, and he said that some tomatoes are grown specially so they are so strong they "
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Such a touching story!
好温油好可爱的故事 皮皮又一人分饰多角www
I haven’t forgotten you but there are too many broken promises. 妈妈爱上了一个流浪者,但她不能与他继续生活。
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you win some, you lose some. 小男孩写到后面,文笔越来越好。作者真的太用心了。
A splendid and powerful little book even adults can relate: life is a lonely journey of soul searching. The character arc of Leigh reads real. He turns from a boy who also scowls to a mature boy who finds himself in writing. At the end I fear that his divorced parents will start dating, but they don’t. That’s the best part of the story.
这个犹豫了一下是给四星还是五星,最后还是决定给五星。这本书读过中译本和英文原版。读中译本时觉得OK,但读英文原版时真的有些感动。虽然是一本写给Pre-Teen & Teen的少年文学,但做父母的读起来也会颇多感悟。没有噱头,也没有刺激,平实却深刻隽永的成长故事