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Gr 4-8 Since David's mother died in a freak accident, the boy and his father have lived with David's grandmother in Pennsylvania. His father, who works in Connecticut, is gone all week, causing the nine-year-old to turn his grief and loneliness into anger directed at his grandmother. The symbolism of the title is apparent throughout the story, beginning when David sarcastically and rudely refuses to go to the annual Easter egg hunt in the park. Yet it is here that he meets Primrose Du...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

During an Easter egg hunt, nine-year-old David finds a girl's dead body at the park. At least, he's sure it's a dead body until two months later when he sees the girl, thirteen-year-old Primrose, at the library very much alive. So begins the unique, volatile friendship at the core of Spinelli's uneven yet moving novel. Both children have absent parents: since his mother's accidental death, David's been living with his grandmother while his father apparently buries him...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Nine-year-old David and thirteen-year-old Primrose share a unique, volatile friendship. Both have absent parents, and Spinel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More