Eggs

Okay so...to heal after having forced myself to read
a work of adult non-fiction, I picked up a book that Eli
brought home from the book fair and LOVED IT.

Jerry Spinelli is a new favorite author. He just
TOTALLY gets kids, their essence, their intrinsic
motivations, how they grow and develop but
mostly how they cope.

Eggs is about friendship and overcoming profound grief.

My favorite bit from the book....

"He still heard his mother's voice - "Davey" - rise like whisperdust
from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only
voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of
others - his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his
grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years
could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise
a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in."