Stranded in Boringsville - Hardcover

Bateson, Catherine

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ISBN 10: 082341969X ISBN 13: 9780823419692

Publisher: Holiday House, 2005

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Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.

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About the Author:

Catherine Bateson started her writing career as a poet. She has since published two collections of poetry and several novels for children and young adults.

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Grade 4-7–When 12-year-old Rains father leaves the family, her mother decides to simplify their lives and move to Rains grandmothers house in the country. Daniel, an intelligent boy who is obsessed with Star Trek and enjoys playing chess, lives next door. At school, the two are called the Double Drips. Rain wishes she could play basketball, but feels obligated to hang out with Daniel, who hates sports. She learns that he has to have surgery to correct a heart problem. Her weekends with her father and his girlfriend get better once the adults acknowledge her feelings and Rain and Daniel discover that Julia is a Trekkie. Readers will relate to Rains adjustment to her parents separation and a new home, school, and friends. The Australian setting features a platypus sighting and a visiting cousin who is so American. This enjoyable and quirky story is told from Rains perspective and includes poems composed from a refrigerator poetry kit and entries from Daniels Captains Log.–Debbie Stewart Hoskins, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI
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