Eggs- Jerry Spinelli

Title: Eggs
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Publisher: Little, Brown Books, 2007
ISBN-10: 0316166464

Genre: Realistic Fiction
Reading Level: 610 Lexile
Interest Level: 9-12

Readers Annotation: Death seems to follow David. His mother suddenly dies and then he finds a body, or what appears to be one, in the woods.

Plot:
 David's world is turned upside down when his mother suddenly dies leaving him to live with his grandmother. She is hard to live with and he wants to escape anytime he can. When David is forced to go to the Easter Egg hunt he runs into what looks like a dead person under some leaves. He runs from the scene because he is so scared. David goes back later and the body is gone. He finds out it was just a girl, Primrose, who was playing. The two become friends with a love-hate relationship. Primrose lives in a bus outside her home and likes to spend time finding treasures at night to sell. David is pulled out of his shell and Primrose is pulled toward the Earth. The two navigate the world to find what love and friendship really means.

Review:
This book is funny and concerning at the same time. Both the children cling to each other because of the love missing from their lives. There is something each of them bring to the other, acceptance. The antics that Primrose and David create keep the reader enthralled and the characters entertaining. They fight often but seem to find that true friendship runs much deeper than small fights. This is an uplifting book I would recommend to anyone.

Similar Materials:

This book deals with loss and abandonment. "A Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron, "Bud, not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis and other Jerry Spinelli books would be good to read.