Blue Like Friday
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- USD 8.99
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- USD 8.99
Descripción editorial
To Hal, Fridays are blue, and tangy, like blue lemon sherbert. Olivia thinks he's crazy. Friday is just Friday, isn't it?
Olivia is pretty sure that Hal's mysterious plan to get rid of his not-quite-stepfather, Alec, is even weirder. But things don't go quite as either Hal or Olivia expect. Maybe the real problem is even closer to home than anyone ever imagined . . .
This gorgeously written voyage of self-discovery will entrance boys and girls aged 9+.
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Like a funny cousin of Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery (Reviews, Dec. 3, 2007), this Irish novel introduces a boy whose thinking runs on its own idiosyncratic track, in his case because he has synaesthesia. In the opening lines, narrator Olivia is explaining to her best friend that blue is a bad color for a kite: "Think about it.... Where does a kite spend its time?" Hal refuses to answer, and later counters that the kite must be blue because Friday is "a light pretty blue. With frills." The exchange sets the stage for the type of logic and the dynamic that guide these two friends as they pull a mean prank on Alec, Hal's mother's live-in boyfriend never guessing that Hal's mother is one step ahead of them the whole time, with a plan of her own to help Hal come to terms with his father's death years ago and with Alec's presence. Parkinson (Something Invisible) knows how to bring together the comic and heartbreaking without ever manipulating readers, and her characters have a full dose of humanity at their disposal. Memorable, wise and thoroughly entertaining. Ages 11-14.
