![]() ![]() ![]() And here Frannie gets incredibly lucky, because there are lots of girls worse off than she was. ![]() ![]() She wishes desperately that she could be part of another family.and her wish comes true, as she bounces through a series of Christmases spent as other girls. Her siblings, however, see it as a great opportunity to host a wild party.and all Frannie's bleating protests have no power to prevent the trashing of her home. Frannie is crushed (and why shouldn't she be) by this abandonment. Instead of being helpful and supportive of her, they simply want nothing to do with her, so much so that her parents decide that this Christmas the two of them will head down to Jamaica by themselves. Oh well.īounce is the story of a 12-year-old girl named Frannie who is basically despised by her parents and big brother and sister as being a helpless, clingy wet-blanket sort of person. Kids Blog of middle grade Christmas-time fantasy books, and I am vexed at myself for not having read Bounce, by Megan Shull (Katherine Tegen Books, September 2016), before I wrote it because it would have been a lovely addition-I didn't have any other contemporary, realistic (except for the fantasy) book. ![]()
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