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Criss Cross
By Perkins, Lynne Rae
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06009-272-6 978-0-06009-273-3
- Publisher
- Greenwillow
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2005
Gr 6-9 The author of the popular "All Alone in the Universe" (HarperCollins, 1999) returns with another character study involving those moments that occur in everyone's life -moments when a decision is made that sends a person along one path instead of another. Debbie, who wishes that something would happen so she'll be a different person, and Hector, who feels he is -unfinished, - narrate most of the novel. Both are 14 y...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2005
Catching fireflies in a jar, fourteen-year-old Debbie (first met in Perkins's spectacular debut novel All Alone in the Universe, rev. 9/99) watches the bugs' "glow parts go on and off," appeasing her guilt over capturing them by convincing herself that "once they were free, their small, basic brains would...have no memory of being imprisoned." Perkins's wonderfully contemplative and relaxed yet captivating second novel, again illustrated with her own perfectly idiosyncratic spot art, is a collecti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
