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Knopf Books for Young Readers
January 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
306 pages
ISBN: 0375831983
EAN: 9780375831980
Kindle: B008LMD6ZU
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Welcome to Hokey Pokey. A place and a time, when childhood
is at its best: games to play, bikes to ride, experiences to
be had. There are no adults in Hokey Pokey, just kids, and
the laws governing Hokey Pokey are simple and finite. But
when one of the biggest kids, Jack, has his beloved bike
stolen—and by a girl, no less—his entire world, and the
world of Hokey Pokey, turns to chaos. Without his bike, Jack
feels like everything has started to go wrong. He feels
different, not like himself, and he knows something is about
to change. And even more troubling he alone hears a faint
train whistle. But that's impossible: every kid knows there
no trains in Hokey Pokey, only tracks. Master storyteller Jerry Spinelli has written a dizzingly
inventive fable of growing up and letting go, of leaving
childhood and its imagination play behind for the more
dazzling adventures of adolescence, and of learning to
accept not only the sunny part of day, but the unwelcome
arrival of night, as well.
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