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What is What's in a Name? about?
<p>what's Really Going On Here?<p>there's Something Brewing In The Town Of Scrub Harbor And It's Not Just About Changing The Name From Scrub Harbor To Folly Bay. O'neill Has A Secret. Adam Is Starting Over. Christine Has A Crush. Gretchen Has A Cause. You'll Get An Earful Getting To Know Them!</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>wittlinger (hard Love) Convincingly Creates 10 Distinct Teen Voices, Each Of Which Takes A Turn Narrating A Chapter. While The Chapters Offer Readers Only A Glimpse Of Each Character, Several Of Them Feature In The Other Teens' Accounts, And Bittersweet, Even Piercing Musings Run Through Many Of The Narratives (it's As If My Emotions Are Twice The Size Of Normal People's, Says One Character, Pained By Unrequited Love. I'm The Arnold Schwarzenegger Of Sensitivity). The Vignettes Rally Around A Rather Tenuous Theme--everyone In Scrub Harbor Is Caught Up In A War Over The Town's Name. The Wealthy Population, The Follys, Wants To Change It To The More Elegant Folly Bay, Hoping To Add Value To Their Real Estate; The Poorer Families, The Scrubs, Want To Maintain Their Traditions. Yet The Teens' Cogent Reflections Fortify The Volume. They Reveal What Runs Deeper Than
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- Author
- Ellen Wittlinger
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442466852
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Engineering, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (78 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14