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Can I read The present tense of Prinny Murphy on EtoBox?
The present tense of Prinny Murphy by Jill MacLean is a ya fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The present tense of Prinny Murphy about?
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature Winner, 20102010 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award NomineeOn Resource Links Best Books of 2009 listThe Present Tense of Prinny Murphy picks up the story where The Nine Lives of Travis Keating leaves off - but this time, from the perspective of Prinny, Travis's friend. An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new "girlfriend", and three relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are "tense."Adding to her misery, she still can't read well enough to escape from remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But when a kindly substitute teacher introduces her to LaVaughn's inner-city world in the free verse novel, Make Lemonade, Prinny discovers that life can be full of possibilities - and poetry."
Who reads The present tense of Prinny Murphy?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Jill MacLean
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781554559565
- Category
- ya fiction
- Subjects
- Young Adult, Juvenile
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (127 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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