This is a book for upper elementary age kids, but sometimes I like to read books aimed at that audience. Jerry Spinelli is a great author, but his books are a little dark. Eggs is about a boy whose mother has just died, he is living with his grandmother while his dad is working in another state. He is clearly struggling when he meets a girl named Primrose…and that is where the story begins.
Archive for April 1st 2008
Liam has decided that he is absolutely terrified of every insect except ladybugs and rolypolys-and he isn’t real sure about the rolypolys. He wouldn’t take a bath last night because he thought there was a bug in the bath. He wouldn’t go in his room the other night because he felt I had left the back door open for too long while trying to get the dog to come inside and some bugs from outside might have somehow made it up to his room even though the door was shut. There was a dead gnat on the kitchen table the other night and all I heard was this ear-piercing shriek…I thought something was really wrong. I don’t think we’ll bother signing him up for Boy Scouts. 🙂