![]() "Capably and unobtrusively structured as well as valid and realistic. ![]() Zelinsky, who creates a quiet backdrop for the realistic characters. Winner of numerous other awards, including two Newbery Honors, Cleary teams up with Caldecott winner Paul O. This Newbery Medal-winning book, by the terrifically popular and prolific Beverly Cleary (Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Runaway Ralph), exhibits a subtlety and sensitivity that will be appreciated by any youngster who feels lonely and troubled during the transition into adolescence. Henshaw, and then in a diary to a pretend Mr. It's not easy being the new kid in town, with recently divorced parents, no dog anymore, and a lunch that gets stolen every day (all the "good stuff," anyway). ![]() Mom tried to phone him at the trailer park where, as Mom says, he hangs his hat. Maybe I was mad about other things, like Dad forgetting to send this month's support payment. Henshaw, I am sorry I was rude in my last letter. ![]() And he never imagines the kinds of things he'll be writing about:ĭear Mr. When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he "licked" his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him four years later. Henshaw becomes a friend he can lean on during a tough time in his life, but its really Leigh who works out a way to handle his feelings about his parents divorce and his unreliable dad. ![]()
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