Under the Watsons' Porch

By Shreve, Susan Richards

Publishers Summary:
Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.

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ISBN
978-0-37582-630-6
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : 2004.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on August 1, 2004

Gr 5-8 The novel opens on Ellie Tremont's 12th birthday; she is the quintessential bored preteen. Her summer begins to look up when she meets her new neighbor. Tommy Bowers, 13, is a foster child with lots of swagger, a mysterious past, and bad-boy appeal, and Ellie senses right away that her parents won't like him. He decides that they should run a camp under the elderly and deaf Watson sisters' porch on Saturday mornings for the littl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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