an amazing year
Ellie Farley's father, Okey, drinks too much, mostly because he hasn't been able to work since he was injured in a mining accident. He hasn't been able to hunt, either, so it's strange when he brings home a hunting dog, a beagle named Bullet.
But Bullet is only the first odd thing that happens to Ellie the year she's eleven. She sees a favorite uncle go off to war; a boy in her class has a fit in the middle of geography and another is accidentally killed while target shooting; and Okey drives his Chevy pickup off the mountain, with near-tragic consequences. But still Ellie manages the ordinary pleasures of making a best friend and getting kissed for the first time -- it's no wonder she confides to Bullet on her twelfth birthday, Some year.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/01/2001
ISBN: 9780689844959
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.01w x 0.28d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/18/2001 pg. 83
Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 57

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 557 / Blue-Eyed Daisy
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 2