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Summary:
- Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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Table of Contents:
- The catch
- Hector goes into a sponge state and has a satori
- Boys, dogs, science fiction
- Radio show
- Leg buds
- In the rhododendrons
- The fable of Lenny
- Easy basin wrench, or Debbie has a mechanical moment, too
- Guitar lessons
- Conversation in the dark: brilliant eskimo thoughts
- Hector's first song
- Truck lessons
- Ravine
- Japanese chapter
- Guitar progress
- Home work
- At the Tastee-freez on a Tuesday evening
- In and out of the cocoon
- Where the necklace went
- Hair
- Confession
- Wuthering heights/Popular mechanics
- The childhood friend
- Grosi
- Meanwhile
- Somewhere else
- Meanwhile, elsewhere
- Mrs. Bruning
- Elephants
- What Patty said when Debbie showed her the photo
- California of the mind
- Dan Persik's progress
- A pig roast
- Roasting the pig
- Sarong
- Flip-flop, necklace
- On the roof
- lightning bugs.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Newbery Medal, 2006
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Audience:
- Preteens
Children
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Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Call Numbers:
- JFic P449c
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ISBNs:
- 0060092726 (trade)
0060092734 (lib. bdg.)
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Other Standard Numbers:
- International Article Number: 9780060092733
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2004054023
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OCLC Numbers:
- 56324543
