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150 pp.
| Farrar/Foster |
September, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-374-37055-8$16.99
(2)
4-6
Popeye lives with his grandmother and good-for-nothing uncle in Fayette, South Carolina. There's nothing to do and nobody to do it with--until bad-boy Elvis Jewell comes to town and suggests, "Let's have a small adventure." Popeye, convinced that excitement lies just around the corner, agrees. Never overdoing the colloquial expressions, O'Connor captures South Carolina speech patterns in her quietly paced, slice-of-life narrative.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2010