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Criss cross / by Lynne Rae Perkins.

Summary:

Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

Item details

ISBN: 0060092726 (trade)
ISBN: 0060092734 (lib. bdg.)
Physical Description: 337 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, 2005.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The catch -- Hector goes into a sponge state and has a satori -- Boys, dogs, science fiction -- Radio show -- Leg buds -- In the rhododendrons -- The fable of Lenny -- Easy basin wrench, or Debbie has a mechanical moment, too -- Guitar lessons -- Conversation in the dark: brilliant eskimo thoughts -- Hector's first song -- Truck lessons -- Ravine -- Japanese chapter -- Guitar progress -- Home work -- At the Tastee-freez on a Tuesday evening -- In and out of the cocoon -- Where the necklace went -- Hair -- Confession -- Wuthering heights/Popular mechanics -- The childhood friend -- Grosi -- Meanwhile -- Somewhere else -- Meanwhile, elsewhere -- Mrs. Bruning -- Elephants -- What Patty said when Debbie showed her the photo -- California of the mind -- Dan Persik's progress -- A pig roast -- Roasting the pig -- Sarong -- Flip-flop, necklace -- On the roof -- lightning bugs.

Awards Note:

Newbery Medal, 2006

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Identity (Philosophical concept) > Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen sixties > Juvenile fiction.
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