Sister Spider Knows All

By Adrian Fogelin

Book Overview

When Roxanne discovers her absent mother's teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and possibilities for a different future.

For twelve-year-old Rox, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market. But outside this fragile weekend world, she's lost. A so-so student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her father's identity is a mystery. And no one, least of all Mimi, will talk about what happened.

But then her cousin John Martin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Rox discovers her mother's teenage diary, she begins discovering some answers to her own past and her future.

With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of life's certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girl's struggles to find her way in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561453862
• ISBN13: 9781561453863
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Everyone should read this book

This book is about life. It's a lot better than the reviewers let on. Sure the diary is a device, but the diary itself paints such an interesting portrait of how we come to be who we are, it's very successful in the end. The storylines suck you in; the book reads easily while discussing life and the decisions we make. Kids can understand this book but the book does not talk down to them. Get it for your kids!