Getting the Girl
Markus Zusak, Author Arthur A. Levine Books $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-439-38949-5
Octavia is narrator Cameron's first real girlfriend, but she is also the latest casualty of his womanizing older brother, Ruben (from Fighting Ruben Wolff), in Marcus Zusak's sequel, Getting the Girl. ""Rube"" is a compassionate friend to his younger brother until Cam's burgeoning into a sensitive companion to Octavia becomes something Ruben both admires and resents. Zusak's tale of first love turns into a complex and authentic rendering of one boy's earthy desires and pain, set against the landscape of Sydney, Australia.
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Reviewed on: 04/01/2003
Release date: 04/01/2003
Genre: Children's
Prebound-Glued - 250 pages - 9781417754892
Hardcover - 272 pages - 9780439389495
Paperback - 250 pages - 9780439389501
Other - 240 pages - 9781448157662