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Gr 4-6 A compelling story that examines some of the hard, "fuzzy gray" issues that confront young people. Cricket, the lonely only child of yuppie parents, clings reluctantly to the fringes of a clique, knowing that it is social suicide to be friends with children from the less affluent neighborhood. However, when the new boy in her class, Dominic, a "crackerbox kid," is assigned to be her partner for a school project, the two become friends in spite of their classmates' taunts, and discover that family income is not a measu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More