This is great realistic fiction with dual/alternating pt. of view. Skinnybones is a teenager, struggling from foster home to foster home. She's thin and angular w/ unique fashion sense and she's set her sights on being a fashion model. As a class project she visits a nursing home and meets the...
Elsa Lubinitsky was practicing the Volga Boat Song on the piano. She stopped to watch her father arrange his jacket collar so that it was even all around. He ran a comb through his tangled curls. “Insane.” He turned and winked at her. “I’m going insane.” ...
Daddy wanders into the kitchen just as we are about to leave for Cosmo’s. He rubs the sleep out of his eyes. He has been sleeping since the middle of the afternoon. My voice tries to make a sound but nothing comes out. I can’t believe I didn’t leave five minutes earlier, just after I’d looked in ...