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FROM: "Jennifer Crenshaw" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/7/02, 6:49 PM

Hi

I have a patron looking for adult/young adult fiction with a coming of age
theme where the protagonist is relatively well-off, self absorbed, and
through whatever circumstance realizes how lucky he is. Kind of Christmas
Carol Scrooge, but more modern. Any help would be appreciated greatly!

Thanks,

Jennifer L. Crenshaw
Pickens County Library System


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FROM: "Marguerite K. Ashford" <[removed]@punahou.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:36 PM

Try Paul Fleischman's The Whirligig. Privileged teenager accidentally
causes death of a teenage girl, whose mother requests that he travel to the
four corners of the continental U.S. and build a whirligig in her
daughter's memory at each place. Boy journeys via bus, and has ephiphanies
throughout. Good for 7th grade and up; also appealing to adults. It's
very short (ca. 125 pages).


At 07:39 PM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a patron looking for adult/young adult fiction with a coming of age
>theme where the protagonist is relatively well-off, self absorbed, and
>through whatever circumstance realizes how lucky he is. Kind of Christmas
>Carol Scrooge, but more modern. Any help would be appreciated greatly!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jennifer L. Crenshaw
>Pickens County Library System
>
>
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Marguerite K. Ashford
Dean [removed]@punahou.edu
Punahou School
1601 Punahou St.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Ph: (808) 943-3217

FROM: "Bonnie Symons" <[removed]@cobourg.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 2:36 PM

I concur with Whirligig. It is a wonderful book and I try to recommend it
whenever possible. Short, fast paced and great punch line.

Bonnie.
Just north of you guys.

FROM: Julie Roberts <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/8/02, 3:51 PM

Excellent book! I second that! Julie A. Roberts [removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us

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From: Marguerite K. Ashford [[removed]@punahou.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Coming of age Scrooge

Try Paul Fleischman's The Whirligig. Privileged teenager accidentally
causes death of a teenage girl, whose mother requests that he travel to the
four corners of the continental U.S. and build a whirligig in her
daughter's memory at each place. Boy journeys via bus, and has ephiphanies
throughout. Good for 7th grade and up; also appealing to adults. It's
very short (ca. 125 pages).


At 07:39 PM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a patron looking for adult/young adult fiction with a coming of age
>theme where the protagonist is relatively well-off, self absorbed, and
>through whatever circumstance realizes how lucky he is. Kind of Christmas
>Carol Scrooge, but more modern. Any help would be appreciated greatly!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jennifer L. Crenshaw
>Pickens County Library System
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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Marguerite K. Ashford
Dean [removed]@punahou.edu
Punahou School
1601 Punahou St.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Ph: (808) 943-3217

FROM: [removed]@lib.state.ca.us
REC'D: 3/8/02, 5:06 PM

Mr. Ives Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos.

Brent

Brent Miller
Government Publications Section
654-0243

FROM: Susan Creed <[removed]@spokanelibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/9/02, 1:47 PM

Gee, I guess I'll third it! As soon as I saw this reply, I thought it was
the perfect suggestion for this query. A wonderful book--and definitely
not "just YA."
--Susan

>Excellent book! I second that! Julie A. Roberts
>Try Paul Fleischman's The Whirligig. Privileged teenager accidentally
>causes death of a teenage girl, whose mother requests that he travel to the
>four corners of the continental U.S. and build a whirligig in her
>daughter's memory at each place. Boy journeys via bus, and has ephiphanies
>throughout. Good for 7th grade and up; also appealing to adults. It's
>very short (ca. 125 pages).

Susan Creed
Youth Services Librarian,
Shadle Library
Spokane Public Library
2111 W. Wellesley
Spokane, WA 99205
[removed]@spokanelibrary.org

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