Whirligig

Paul Fleischman

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Inc.

Brent wants to be popular. At every new school he attends he searches for clues of how to be popular. But when he makes a terrible mistake and ends the life of someone else, he doesn't know how to fit in at all.

Then he gets a chance to make things right, or at least, more right. So he sets off on a journey to make whirligigs. His adventure takes him all across the United States. By the time he is done with the adventure he has learned more than just how to make a whirligig.

A touching story of healing and forgivness.


Warnings: Some language in the first chapter