Waitressing till late night, always arguing with her dad Gus, never escaping the big mistake she made at 15 – that’s Bean’s mom. Soap operas, junk food, always staying at home – that’s Henry’s mom. My book talk: The summer that her grandpa dies changes everything for 15-year-old Bean and her best (only) friend Henry, trying to grow up despite their oddball moms and missing dads. Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher. When is revealing a secret worse than keeping it?īook info: Pearl / Jo Knowles. You’ll have to read Pearl to find out which layers of those secrets are the truth.īig thanks to author Jo Knowles for helping Kate Messner offer the summertime Teachers Write program online so that teachers and librarians can get better at their own writing (and maybe finish the next amazing novel we all can’t wait to read). Her friend Henry’s mom never got over being abandoned when he was a tiny baby, so she just stays in their house, watching soaps endlessly.įate does have its twists and turns, especially when 15 years of neighborhood and family secrets suddenly surface. As much as he loved his little ‘Bean’, he blamed her mom for that mistake every single day for the rest of his life. Must have been hard for Pearl’s grandfather when his only child was suddenly pregnant at 15, the age that never-had-a-boyfriend Pearl is now. Henry and Pearl feel like they’re in Bizarro World for sure.
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