The Big One-Oh
Dean Pitchford, . . Putnam, $15.99 (181pp) ISBN 978-0-399-24547-3
In this debut novel from song- and screenwriter Pitchford, a boy relates the sometimes funny, sometimes moving story of how he planned his 10th birthday party. The thought of having a party had not occurred to narrator Charley until he gets a card from his father (who left home three years earlier) asking, "What are you going to do on your big day?" Fearful that he has too much in common with his loner neighbor Garry (the boy refers to them as "two friendless freaks"), Charley vows "to throw the best party—in the history—
Reviewed on: 03/12/2007
Genre: Children's
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