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Wringer
Format:
Book
Title:
Wringer
ISBN:
9780060249137

9780060249144

9780064405782
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : HarperCollins, 1997.
Physical Description:
228 pages ; 20 cm
General Note:
"Joanna Cotler books."
Summary:
"He did not want to be a wringer. Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer. This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Untie his sneaker lace? Call him a name? Stand up and fight? Palmer thinks that becoming a wringer is something he can't stop... until the day a visitor shows up at this window. It was simply, merely there, a whisper of featherwings, reminding him of the moment he dreaded above all others. Should he open the window? In his dreams the moment had already come. Should he invite fear into his room? In his dreams he looks down to find his hands around the neck of the pigeon. What is it like to be hated? For much of his life Palmer LaRue had felt he was standing at the edge of a black, bottomless hole. On the fifty-ninth day before his tenth birthday, he fell in." -- Dust Jacket.
Reading Level:
Middle School.
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