Wringer
(Book)

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Published
New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 20 cm.
Status
Ellinwood Libraries - Juvenile Fiction
JF SPI
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Published
New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 4.5, 5 Points
Lexile measure
690

Notes

General Note
"Joanna Cotler books."
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. He did not want to be a wringer. Palmer LaRue is rUnning out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer. This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker lace? Call him a name? Stand up and fight? Palmer thinks that becoming a wringer is something he can't stop...until the day a visitor shows up at his window. It was simply, merely there, a whisper of feather wings, reminding him of the moment he dreaded above all others. Should he open the window? In his dreams the moment had already come. Should he invite fear into his room? In his dreams he looks down to find his hands around the neck of the pigeon. What is it like to be hated? For much of his life Palmer Larue had felt he was standing at the edge of a black, bottomless hole. On the fifty-ninth day before his tenth birthday, he fell in. Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten--the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about himself and it's one of the biggest things he has to hide. In Palmer's town being a wringer is an honor, a tradition passed down from father to son. Palmer can't stop himself from being a wringer just like he can't stop himself from growing one year older, just like he can't stand up to a whole town--right?
Awards
Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1998.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Spinelli, J. (1997). Wringer . HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Spinelli, Jerry. 1997. Wringer. HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer HarperCollins, 1997.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer HarperCollins, 1997.

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