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Blue Like Friday

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By Siobhan Parkinson
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Blue Like Friday
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NOT EVERYONE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH THE SAME LENS. From the author of Something Invisiblecomes this funny and poignant novel about the hues of friendship. Spunky Olivia and eccentric Hal are an unlikely pair. While Hal suffers from a neurological condition called synesthesia that causes him to associate things with colors, Olivia tends to see the world in black and white. Still, these two are friends through thick and thin, through rosecolored days and blue days, even when Hals plan to get rid of his mothers boyfriend backfires by driving his mother away. Olivias honest, funny and alwaysopinionated voice tells this story with colorful perception.

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34154 words34,154 words
160 pages160 pages
Lexile 730LLexile 730L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 2008Published 2008

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9781596433403

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