Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
	List Price:   $6.99 Unit Price:   $5.59 You Save:   $1.40 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060092742 ISBN-13:   9780060092740 Publisher:   HarperCollins Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 2008 Pages:   337 Format:   Paperback Ages:   10 to 14 Grades:   5 to 9
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word soon. Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. He felt himself changing, too, but into what? So much can happen in a summer. Debbie Pelbry wishes something would happen. So do her friends in their small hometown of Seldem. And things do happen - they meet new people, they learn to do new things, and they spend time with one another. In this Newbery Medal winning novel, Debbie Pelbry wishes something would happen. So do her friends in their small hometown of Seldem. And things do happen: they meet new people (people with possibilities), they learn to do new things (like play the guitar or fix a leaky sink), and they spend time with one another (at picnics and pig roasts, on roofs and in driveways). In this lyrical, funny, and gentle novel, a group of teenagers begin to find themselves