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Wingwalker
By Wells, Rosemary
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-78680-397-2 978-0-78682-347-5
- Publisher
- Hyperion
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2002
Gr 3-6 In this deceptively slim, slice-of-life chapter book, the narrator recounts a pivotal childhood summer. Reuben is a carefree second grader living in rural Oklahoma with his mother, a caf cook, and his father, a dance instructor, when the Depression and Dust Bowl end the family's stable, quiet way of life. Desperate for work, the boy's father takes a job as an airplane wingwalker in a Minnesota traveling carnival. Reuben's rete...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2002
With its burnished imagery and distinctive premise, this Depression-era story begins promisingly but dissolves into a warm puddle of nostalgia. Second-grader Reuben and his parents are happy living in Ambler, Oklahoma, where oil drilling rigs dot the prairie like "big iron grasshopper[s]." Then dust storms hit, and the town's economy collapses. Reuben's father, a dance teacher with a love of airplanes, answers a newspaper help-wanted ad for a wingwa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
