THE PINBALLS
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1977
Series: Book 2 of 2 - Apple
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 1997
Condition: Used - Fair
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Color illust on cover. 136 pages. Chapter book. Well read copy. Usual library markings. Pocket on fep. Dj flap pasted to inside of front cover. Spine slightly worn at ends. Covers slightly worn around edges.
Seller Inventory # 129067B
- Title
- THE PINBALLS
- Author
- Byars, Betsy
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New York
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Library Binding
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060209186
- ISBN 13
- 9780060209186
- Illustrator
- Ruth Sanderson
- Edition
- 1st
- Dimensions
- 5 x 8
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: Apple
- Seller catalogs
- CHILDRENS
"What else is on your 'Bad Things' list?" Carlie urged.
"Nothing. I've just got the appendectomy so far."
"Well, write down two broken legs," Carlie suggested. "I wouldn't exactly call them the fun event of the year." She paused. "If it was me, I'd make that number two and three, wouldn't you, Thomas J? Number two, right leg. Number three, left."
After all, when your own father drives over your legs, you really should account for both of them. Harvey has other lists, too, lists of people he is afraid of and of gifts he got that he didn't want. Carlie has it figured that his problem, like her own and Thomas J's, is that he is a pinball. Pinballs don't get to settle where they want.
But under the influence of their foster parents and each other, Carlie's cynicism is eclipsed by her determination to bring Harvey out of his despondency; and the earnest Thomas J begins to find his own identity. Even Carlie is willing to conclude that the three are not pinballs, after all.
Betsy Byars' upbeat story of children disappointed by their parents is often funny and always poignant.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Back Cover
You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid.
Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own Iives.
Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her beter judgement, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own lives.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN
Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 1997
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Bkslinen operates out of my home and I have over 10,000 out of print children's books. I am now retired and working very diligently to get them listed and sold. I love children's books and it is a joy to find a book for someone who remembers the book from their childhood. My granddaughter, Tiffany Power, is now running the business!
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