Then you were out of the living room and into the front room when the blue carpet changed to brown. You knew you were out of the kitchen/dining room and into the living room when the fake-brick linoleum stopped and the pale blue carpet started. The flooring just changed color every ten feet or so. There weren’t doors or walls between the downstairs rooms in our row house. He’s just taking a break for a little while.Īnyway, I couldn’t see either of them because of the lights being off, but I could hear everything they said. But the accident wasn’t his fault, and he’ll get another job soon.
Ever since he wrecked his cab, he’s been winding down a lot. As far as I could tell, he was just sitting on the couch, drinking a beer and watching TV, like he usually does after dinner. Then my mom, over in the living room, started picking on my dad for no good reason. The fridge stopped making the wheezy noise it usually makes. The numbers on the microwave’s clock disappeared. Everything else in the house stopped working too. Ages 8 12.I was in the dining room part of the kitchen doing my math homework at the table when the lights suddenly blinked off. The insightful, memorable, and complex characters that Snyder creates result in a story with the same qualities. Introspective and rich with delicate imagery, this coming-of-age tale shares themes with Snyder's Penny Dreadful (2010). But Rebecca comes to understand that the box won't solve her problems (conversely, it creates some enormous ones) she has to do that on her own. One day while exploring her grandmother's attic, Rebecca finds a magic breadbox that will grant any wish that fits inside it: a cookie, money, pens, lip-gloss, candy, or a diamond. When Rebecca discovers this isn't just a quick visit (her mother has a temp job for herself lined up and a new school picked out for Rebecca), she's furious. Rebecca's father has been out of work, and her mother is fed up after a big fight with her husband, she packs up the children and drives from Baltimore to Atlanta to visit Rebecca and Lew's grandmother.
I knew from the weird fuzzy humming inside my head," thinks 12-year-old Rebecca Shapiro as her family ruptures before her eyes.
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