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Wringer is a young adult novel by jerry spinelli, first published in 1996. Large print books have been around a long time for older people, but to find a good novel for a young person in large print began to feel nearly impossible. A wringer is a boy that wrings necks of injured pigeons during his towns annual pigeon day, where they shoot pigeons. In this town the killing of the pigeons has become a yearly event in which the whole community participates. On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the canadian mountains, thirteenyearold brian robeson is the only survivor when the singleengine.
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A hand wringer also lends itself nicely to some daytoday scenarios. This is a remarkable story of peer and social pressure, the courage to sort through the quagmire of self doubt until the mud clears and what remains is a crystal clear reflection of self acceptance. The men shoot them as they are released on the town green and the ten year old boys are wringers who run out and twist the necks of the. Buckets free delivery possible on eligible purchases. The dread is pervasive from the first page, the casual cruelty of almost everyone around palmer adult and child is frightening, and the rush of events sweeps the reader along just as it does palmer. Wringer, by jerry spinelli, is a novel about palmer larue, a boy living in the small town of waymer, where the annual festival known as family fest is held. After the townspeople have competed in the pigeon shoot, the wringers go out onto the field and find the pigeons that havent been killed and then break or wring their necks. Palmer is a really good kid who doesnt like to wring the pigeons neck. Winner of the 1998 newbery medal when you turn ten in this town, you achieve the privilege of being a wringer at the annual pigeon shoot.
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