Recycling George
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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 for his birthday. Thoroughbred horses. A butler. Really nice clothes. It's life at the top for George, and he's more than ready to have it all...until he finds that the Whitfields have some very big plans for him, too! Populated with a host of giddy, offbeat characters, Recycling George is a funny, exuberant story that also packs an emotional wallop.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1442429410
ISBN13:9781442429413
Release Date:December 2010
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Age Range:8 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 3 to 7
Customer Reviews
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A MIRACULOUS NEW WORK FROM STEPHEN ROOS
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I don't know when I have enjoyed a novel more than my recent reading of Stephen Roos' brilliant new book RECYCLING GEORGE. Like Mr. Roos' previous book, THE GYPSIES NEVER CAME, he writes with a terse style and abundant wit that make the sensitive issue of a child's abandonment all the more keenly felt and understood. The character of George is so believably complex: plucky and unlucky, passive and angrily defiant, brave and scared all at the same time. George trying his hardest to make the best out of the terrifying moment when he returns to his trailer park home to discover that his family has abandoned him and taken the trailer with them. How young George comes to terms with this abandonment reminds one of the resilience and humor of the young hero of J.D. Salinger's Catcher In The Rye. Like Salinger, Roos understands a boy's heart and knows how to reveal this heart to us through humor and searing honesty. Roos' writing style only continues to grow in power and simplicity with each new undertaking he attempts-making him one of the truly great authors writing about and for adolescents today."
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