It is fall and pumpkins dot the neighborhood and we have enjoyed our first cold front. This book was a perfect match with my reading mood. She is also keenly aware of Wes, the new guy in school who is also a grower, though his area is corn. The story is not dreary but is full of humor.Įllie wishes she could lose 20 pounds while she is doing everything she can to add weight to Max. Ellie's mom is dead and they are both working through life without her. Her father is worried about her obsession with her pumpkin, Max, and that she is missing the normal "fun" of high school as a result. She is the winner of second place in last year's Rock River Pumpkin Weigh-In and is determined to win first place this year. The Bauer book that my own daughter seems to return to again and again is Squashed. Jenna in Rules of the Road can fit and sell shoes better than anyone else on the planet. In Hope was Here, Hope strives to be a uber professional waitress in the diners where her Aunt Addie cooks. Her novels are about young people who are vulnerable but courageous and find pride and strength in a central focus in their life. Before the sisterhood's pants started traveling, before princesses started keeping diaries, Joan Bauer was touching hearts with her novels.
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