Squashed
β Scribed by Bauer, Joan
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101657898
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β¦ Synopsis
Humor, agriculture and young love all come together in Joan Bauer's first novel, set in rural Iowa. Sixteen-year-old Ellie Morgan's life would be almost perfect if she could just get her potentially prize-winning pumpkin to put on about 200 more pounds--and if she could take off 20 herself...in hopes of attracting Wes, the new boy in town.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
On a trip to the farmers' market with her parents, Sophie chooses a squash, but instead of letting her mom cook it, she names it Bernice. From then on, Sophie brings Bernice everywhere, despite her parents' gentle warnings that Bernice will begin to rot. As winter nears, Sophie does start to notice