Otto Bookstore

Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s and we have a new picture book by Patricia Polacco that’s a “must read” at the beginning of the school year!  It’s The Junkyard Wonders, about a little girl who’s dyslexic and her classmates with various handicaps that set them apart from the rest of the students and put them in a separate class that is known as “the junkyard.”  Why “the junkyard?”  The junkyard is where you put the stuff nobody wants, some think.  But to Mrs. Peterson, their teacher, “a junkyard is a place full of wondrous possibilities!  What some see as bent and broken throwaways are actually things waiting to be made into something new—something unexpected, something surprising.”  And then she takes her class on a field trip to a junkyard to find the makings of something new, something unexpected, something surprising.  Where does Polacco get the ideas for her stories?  For this one, from her own life—she was dyslexic.  She couldn’t read until she was 14!  Read The Junkyard Wonders.  You’ll look at handicaps in a whole new way!  You’ll find it at Otto’s a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport.

Junkyard Wonders (Hardcover)

By Patricia Polacco, Patricia Polacco

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780399250781
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Philomel, 7/2010

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