David and Primrose become fast friends, sneaking out at night and generally ignoring their guardians.
Coincidentally, her father is out of the picture as well, and she lives alone with her kooky, fortune-telling mother. One day while begrudgingly participating in a neighborhood Easter egg hunt with his grandmother, David stumbles upon 13-year-old Primrose under a pile of leaves-she is pretending to be dead. He lives with his grandmother, whom he finds nagging and annoying, and his absent father, who is only around on weekends. The conceptually appealing story starts out with a bang as readers are introduced to David, a vulnerable nine-year-old boy whose mother died by slipping on wet pavement and falling down the stairs. ) latest novel, the Newbery Medalist falls slightly short of the high standard he's set in some of his previous books.
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