The

The Pinballs

By - Byars, Betsy Cromer
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Harper & Row, New York, 1977
ISBN 10 - 0064401987
ISBN 13 - 9780064401982
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Friendship
Shelf No - 4
Call Number - 813.54 BYA
Physical Description - 136 pages ; 21 cm
Book Information
You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own Iives. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her beter judgement, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own lives.

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