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Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli

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Hokey Pokey

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli

By Jerry Spinelli
Read by Maxwell Glick and Tara Sands

By Jerry Spinelli
Read by Maxwell Glick and Tara Sands

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Books

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Books

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Books

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Books

Category: Children’s Middle Grade Books | Audiobooks

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Paperback $7.99

Apr 22, 2014 | 320 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Hardcover $15.99

Jan 08, 2013 | 304 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Hardcover $18.99

Jan 08, 2013 | 304 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Ebook $7.99

Jan 08, 2013 | 192 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Audiobook Download $15.00

Jan 08, 2013 | 360 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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    About Hokey Pokey

    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.

    About Hokey Pokey

    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.

    About Hokey Pokey

    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.

    About Hokey Pokey

    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.

    About Hokey Pokey

    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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    The Warden's Daughter
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    Love, Stargirl
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    The Warden's Daughter
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    About Jerry Spinelli

    “Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of… More about Jerry Spinelli

    About Jerry Spinelli

    “Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of… More about Jerry Spinelli

    About Jerry Spinelli

    “Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of… More about Jerry Spinelli

    About Jerry Spinelli

    “Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of… More about Jerry Spinelli

    About Jerry Spinelli

    “Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of… More about Jerry Spinelli

    Product Details

    Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Yearling
    Apr 22, 2014 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780440420514

    Hardcover | $15.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Jan 08, 2013 | 304 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780375831980

    Hardcover | $18.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Jan 08, 2013 | 304 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780375931987

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Jan 08, 2013 | 192 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780307975706

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Listening Library (Audio)
    Jan 08, 2013 | 360 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780385368483

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    Praise

    Starred Review, School Library Journal, January 1, 2013:
    “This unforgettable coming-of-age story will resonate with tween readers and take its rightful place beside the author’s Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar’s Holes.”

    Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, December 1, 2012:
    “A masterful, bittersweet recognition of coming-of-age.”


    From the Hardcover edition.

    Awards

    Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year WINNER

    CBC Awards & Honors NOMINEE 2013

    Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College Children’s Book of the Year SELECTION 2014

    IRA–CBC Children’s Choice SELECTION 2014

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