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Jukes, Mavis

The New Kid

277 pp. | Knopf | December, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-85879-6 $14.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-95879-3 $17.99
(2) 4-6 Jukes crafts a moving, hilarious, and artful story of nine-year-old Carson, the new kid at school. Carson is adopted and his dad is single, but there is nary an issue in this story, just real, kind, hugely likable people in situations that ring funny and true. Jukes captures perfectly the loopy, borderline-absurd perceptions of a third-grade boy.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

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