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    Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies

    By Jill Wolfson

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    The new novel from Jill Wolfson—an exciting, fresh voice in middle-grade fiction

    Whitney has been in so many foster homes that she can give a complete rundown on the most common varieties of foster parents—from the look-on-the-bright-side types to those unfortunate examples of pure evil. But one thing she doesn't know much about is trees. This means heading for Foster Home #12 (which is all the way at the top of the map of California, where there looks to be nothing but trees) has Whitney feeling a little nervous. She is pretty sure that the middle of nowhere is going to be just one more place where a hyper, loud-mouthed kid who is messy and small for her age won't be welcome for long.

    Jill Wolfson has woven together the stories of an irrepressible foster child and a deeply divided small town with incredible humor and compassion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 3, 2006
    ISBN9781466822603
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    Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies
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    Jill Wolfson

    Jill Wolfson is the author of the novel What I Call Life. Her writing has also appeared in Salon and the San Jose Mercury News. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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    • 4/5
      I picked up this book while doing inventory, and skimmed the first two pages. Then I put it on my desk to take a look at it in case I wanted to recommend it to some kids. Then I read the first chapter while taking a break. Then I read the second chapter during the dinner hour. Then I took it home and read the rest of it in one go. And when I finished it, even though there was nobody in the room, I looked up and said, "I loved this book."I admit that the character is difficult to love, but so does she. She's not quiet, she's not polite, she's not organized or dedicated, or any of the things that adults value in kids. But I found this book funny, touching, and with just a touch of edge that helps keep me grounded in the fact that this face she's put on is her way of coping with a life of loss and displacement that could grind her down. Instead, she can use the front to defend herself from the best way she knows how.I'm getting my son to read it next and tell me his review, just in case I'm nuts. :)
    • 4/5
      Whitney has been in eleven other foster homes, but life with the McCrary's turns out to be surprisingly different. First of all, they live in the middle of nowhere- a small town called Forest Glen that's in the middle of the woods and going through an economic slump since the logging company laid off 3/4 of their employees. Second, there are lots of other foster kids in her class at school. Families have taken them in for the government check to tide them through the hard times. Whitney's used to being a foster kid, but what she doesn't expect is to fall in love with the forest and all the animals it holds. Whitney helps start an ecology club at her school, but there's one problem... Most of the townspeople don't look favorably on environmentalists because that's why they've lost their jobs. Can Whitney change their minds? It's The Great Gilly Hopkins meets Hoot. Whitney is funny, irreverent, and irrepressible.