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Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts, Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters. 'Horvath tops even' Everything on a Waffle with this hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies. . . Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life-changing events.' -- Starred, 'Kirkus Reviews' 'Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride.' -- Starred, 'School Library Journal 'Alternately dark and humorous, Polly Horvath's imagination is always a treat.' -- 'The Chicago Tribune Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy – whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly’s open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts. By turns dark and humorous, Polly Horvath offers adolescent readers enough quirky characters and outrageous situations to leave them reeling! ... Tilly was tiny and very, very thin. Penpen was round and jolly and didn't look all that old. Not nearly as old as Tilly, but Ratchet knew that she must be because the first thing that Tilly said to her when she got in their waiting car was, 'We are twins. We were born together, we grew up together, we have lived our whole lives together, and we have plans to die together. The thing is, as I tried to explain to your mother --' 'We are living somewhere very remote,' interrupted Penpen, flashing a smile from the front seat. 'So if we die, you will be stuck, that's all I was trying to tell your mother! But, as usual, she wasn't listening. Stuck,' said Tilly glumly, putting on her driving gloves. Tilly sat on two phone books and a cushion and yet she could barely see over the wheel. Ratchet sat in the backseat. It was black out. In fact, the night sky, the whole night air of the Maine woods, had an oily quality -- a dark so deep you could almost see rainbows in it. Ratchet had no idea where she was ... Book jacket. Polly Horvath is the author of many books for children, including When the Circus Came to Town, The Trolls, and Everything on a Waffle. She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia |
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