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Wringer

by Jerry Spinelli
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    • Grades: 5 - 8
    • Ages: 11 - 14
    Awards:
    Newbery Honor ; Newbery Author
    • Format: Paperback Book
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This suspenseful, thought-provoking book is a story about facing peer pressure and finding the strength to follow your heart.
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Every ten-year-old boy must take part in the town's annual hunt—but Palmer thinks it's cruel. Does he have the courage to rebel? By the author of Loser and Stargirl!
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Product Details

    • Grades: 5 - 8
    • Ages: 11 - 14
  • Product Type: Book
  • Page Count: 240 pages
  • Dimensions: 5 1/4" x 7 5/8"
  • Language: English
  • ISBN 13: 978-0-590-03710-5

About the Author

As a kid Jerry Spinelli dreamed of becoming a Major League baseball player, but when he had a sports poem published in his local newspaper, he realized he'd rather be a writer instead. Spinelli's first few novels (for adults) were all rejected by publishers, but his fifth novel, Space Station Seventh Grade, became a great success.

Since then, Jerry Spinelli has written over 30 books for young readers, including Fourth Grade Rats, Crash, The Library Card, Stargirl, Loser, and The Warden's Daughter. He won a Newbery Honor for his novel Wringer and a Newbery Medal for Maniac Magee, the story of an athletic orphan whose spectacular track talents are matched only by his largeness of heart.

But even with so many books to his name (and 21 grandchildren), Spinelli still doesn't think of himself only as a writer. "There are so many other things I do. I pick berries and touch ponies and skim flat stones over water and marvel at the stars and breathe deeply and grin from ear to ear and save the best part for last. Call me writer if you like. Or grandpa. Or a berry-picking, pony-touching, star-marveler."