Author : Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060092726
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Criss Cross by : Lynne Rae Perkins
Download or read book Criss Cross written by Lynne Rae Perkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (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 black–and–white pictures, comics, and photographs by the author. Ages 10+