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Canning Season by Polly Horvath (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374399565

ISBN-139780374399566

eBay Product ID (ePID)2285190

Product Key Features

Book TitleCanning Season

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicGeneral, Family / Multigenerational, People & Places / United States / General

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorPolly Horvath

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN2002-066296

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling...Readers may find themselves wondering just how far Horvath will go with her uncensored, Mad Hatter humor - and they won't be disappointed with her steering." --Starred, Publishers Weekly "Horvath tops even Everything on a Waffle with this hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies...A tale rife with important themes and life-changing events." --Starred, Kirkus Reviews, "Horvath tops evenEverything on a Wafflewith this hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies. . . Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life-changing events." --Starred,Kirkus Reviews "Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride." --Starred,School Library Journal "Alternately dark and humorous, Polly Horvath's imagination is always a treat." --The Chicago Tribune "Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling...Readers may find themselves wondering just how far Horvath will go with her uncensored, Mad Hatter humor - and they won't be disappointed with her steering." --Starred,Publishers Weekly, "Horvath tops even Everything on a Waffle with this hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies. . . Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life-changing events." --Starred, Kirkus Reviews "Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride." --Starred, School Library Journal "Alternately dark and humorous, Polly Horvath's imagination is always a treat." --The Chicago Tribune "Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling...Readers may find themselves wondering just how far Horvath will go with her uncensored, Mad Hatter humor - and they won't be disappointed with her steering." --Starred, Publishers Weekly, "Horvath tops even Everything on a Waffle with this hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies. . . Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life-changing events." --Starred, Kirkus Reviews "Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride." --Starred, School Library Journal "Alternately dark and humorous, Polly Horvath's imagination is always a treat." -- The Chicago Tribune "Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling...Readers may find themselves wondering just how far Horvath will go with her uncensored, Mad Hatter humor - and they won't be disappointed with her steering." --Starred, Publishers Weekly

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromFifth Grade

Dewey DecimalFIC

Grade ToNinth Grade

SynopsisLove under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn't look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly's open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts. By turns dark and humorous, Polly Horvath offers adolescent readers enough quirky characters and outrageous situations to leave them reeling! The Canning Season is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature., ... Tilly was tiny and very, very thin. Penpen was round and jolly and didn't look all that old. Not nearly as old as Tilly, but Ratchet knew that she must be because the first thing that Tilly said to her when she got in their waiting car was, "We are twins. We were born together, we grew up together, we have lived our whole lives together, and we have plans to die together. The thing is, as I tried to explain to your mother --" "We are living somewhere very remote," interrupted Penpen, flashing a smile from the front seat. "So if we die, you will be stuck, that's all I was trying to tell your mother! But, as usual, she wasn't listening. Stuck," said Tilly glumly, putting on her driving gloves. Tilly sat on two phone books and a cushion and yet she could barely see over the wheel. Ratchet sat in the backseat. It was black out. In fact, the night sky, the whole night air of the Maine woods, had an oily quality -- a dark so deep you could almost see rainbows in it. Ratchet had no idea where she was ... Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.H79224Can 2003

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