Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath

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Primrose Squarp simply knows her parents did not perish at sea during a terrible storm, but try convincing the other residents of Coal Harbour on that score. For all practical purposes, at least for the time being, Primrose is an orphan, and there’s no great clamoring of prospective adopters. After realizing the impracticality of continuing to pay Miss Perfidy (a mothball-scented elderly lady) an hourly wage to baby-sit her, the town council is able to locate a relative, Uncle Jack, who reluctantly takes Primrose into his care. Primrose does warm up to living with him and in his home, despite the eerie noises resembling a hockey game that haunt her in the night. But true sanctuary can always be found at a restaurant called The Girl in the Swing, where everything—including lasagna—is served on a waffle, and where the proprietor, Miss Bowzer, offers a willing ear, as well as sage advice. Through a mixture of eccentric humor and probing philosophy, author Polly Horvath makes Primrose’s search for peace and understanding a most memorable one.
 
Everything on a Waffle is a 2001 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry and a 2002 Newbery Honor Book.

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“In [Horvath’s] capable hands the dilemma of Primrose Squarp is revealed with hilarity and buoyant good nature. . . . Subtlety and slapstick is a challenging combination; Horvath pulls it off beautifully.”—The Horn Book Magazine, Starred Review

“Horvath delivers another hilariously puckish read with this tale of a (possibly) orphaned girl from a small Canadian fishing village. . . . A laugh-out-loud pleasure from beginning to triumphant end.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“The story is full of subtle humor and wisdom, presented through the eyes of a uniquely appealing young protagonist.”—School Library Journal
 
“. . . a deeply touching novel about irrational faith.”—Orlando Sentinel
 
“Delightful. Hilarious. Entertaining. Insightful. These adjectives don’t even begin to describe a novel I simply couldn’t put down. . . . You’ll love it.”—The Syracuse Post-Standard

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Danielle  rated it  
Oct 16, 2011
Horvath, Polly. Everything on a Waffle. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company: Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2001. 150 pp. ISBN-978-0-312-38004-5

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Newbery Honor Book
Rating: ***** Primrose Squarp is told over and over again that her parents are dead, but she knows in her h ...more
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Claudialeung  rated it  
Aug 9, 2011
This book is about a girl named Primrose Squarp and she is live in Coal Harbour,British Columbia with her parents. She is eleven years old. One day,her parents went to fishing on a boat to the another places when the weather is typhoon. Then, Primrose can't find her parents when she wake up in the m ...more
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Aubrey  rated it  
Feb 4, 2011
This is a Newberry honor book that is great for tweens plus. The story is tragic but is told with a very positive, "we can get through anything" lens. What I love most about it is the recipes at the end of each chapter. For example in Chapter 1 she says that she has hair the color of car ...more
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Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath is the author of many books for young people, including The Pepins and Their Problems, The Canning Season and The Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Christie Award, the international White Raven, and the Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City. She has taught ballet, waitressed, done temporary typing, and tended babies, but while doing these things she has always also written. Now that her children are in school, she spends the whole day writing, unless she sneaks out to buy groceries, lured away from her desk by the thought of fresh Cheez Whiz. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and two daughters.

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Everything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath
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Boston Globe – Horn Book Award, Honor Books, Newbery Honor Book

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Square Fish
April 2008
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ISBN: 9780312380045
ISBN10: 0312380046
Middle-Grade Fiction
5 3/16 x 7 5/8 inches, 176 pages
Age Range: 10 to 14
Grade Range: 5 to 9 Information for Librarians

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Lexile: 950LL
F&P Level A-Z: V
AR Quiz Number: 48071
AR Points: 5

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April 2001
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ISBN: 9780374322366
ISBN10: 0374322368
Middle-Grade Fiction
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 160 pages
Age Range: 10 and up
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Lexile: 950LL
F&P Level A-Z: V
AR Quiz Number: 48071
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