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Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1) by Cleary, Beverly is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

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Dear Mr. Henshaw,I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school."Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life.Amazon.com ReviewWhen, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he "licked" his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him four years later. And he never imagines the kinds of things he'll be writing about: Dear Mr. Henshaw, I am sorry I was rude in my last letter... Maybe I was mad about other things, like Dad forgetting to send this month's support payment. Mom tried to phone him at the trailer park where,

Who reads Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)?

Author

Cleary, Beverly

Publisher

HarperCollins Children's Book Group

Published

1963

Language

EN

ISBN

9780788708695

Category

children's

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Drama

Rating

3.7 / 5 (29,366 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13