Very Rich

Very Rich

by Polly Horvath
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/10/2018

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Ten-year-old Rupert Brown inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas with the wealthiest family in town and is astonished to discover a world he never knew existed.


Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity to win wonderful prizes in the family games—prizes he hopes to take home so he can share his Christmas bounty with his family. But after he loses everything in the last game, Rupert resigns himself to going home empty handed.


Feeling secretly guilty, all of the adults in Rivers family try to make it up to him by taking Rupert on one unlikely adventure after another, embroiling him in everything from time travel to bank robberies. But can anything he experiences make up for what he has lost?


Deftly blending magical realism with heartbreak, hope, and a wide cast of eccentric characters, Polly Horvath weaves a tale that is darkly funny and deeply poignant. Very Rich is a bittersweet and quirky story that celebrates the unique nature of human experience.


A Junior Library Guild selection!

ISBN:
9780823441402
9780823441402
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-10-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Holiday House
Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath has written many books for children. She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award and a Newbery Honor.

She has also been short-listed for The Deutscher Jugenliteraturpreis, Germany's most prestigious literature award, and the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work. She lives in British Columbia.

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