The Pinballs Paperback - 1992
by Betsy Byars
Winner of multiple awards, this novel follows three lonely foster children asthey learn to care about themselves and each other.
First line
One summer two boys and a girl went to a foster home to live together.
From the rear 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.
Details
- Title The Pinballs
- Author Betsy Byars
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date September 25, 1992
- ISBN 9780064401982 / 0064401987
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.22 x 0.32 in (19.51 x 13.26 x 0.81 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 600
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Foster home care
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76041518
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 01/04/1993, Page 0
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