Junonia
by:
Kevin Henkes (author)
Returning to the beach cottage—a cottage named Scallop—where she has always celebrated her birthday is a special occasion for Alice Rice. Who will see the first dolphin this time? The first pelican? What will have changed? Stayed the same? And will this be the year she finally finds a junonia...
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Returning to the beach cottage—a cottage named Scallop—where she has always celebrated her birthday is a special occasion for Alice Rice. Who will see the first dolphin this time? The first pelican? What will have changed? Stayed the same? And will this be the year she finally finds a junonia shell?Alice's friends are all returning, too. And she's certain her parents have the best party planned for her. Alice can't wait. If Alice is lucky, everything will be absolutely perfect. Will Alice be lucky?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061964176 (0061964174)
Publish date: May 24th 2011
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Another J FIC read; I didn’t love it as much as some of Henkes’s other books. There’s the sense of respect for the interior life of a child, but it just didn’t click with me the way his books usually do.
Alice and her parents go to Florida for one week, every year--the week of Alice's birthday. They stay in the same place every time, and Alice feels that the people in the neighboring cottages--old Mr. Barden, the Wishmeiers--are part of her family. The year Alice turns ten, though, everything is a...
Sweet but possibly more for adults than the children it was written for.
Sweet but possibly more for adults than the children it was written for.
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