BOOK: You can call me Worm by Haas

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

You Can Call my Worm
by Dan Haas
        This book starts out as a story of two brothers, one called Worm
because he ate a worm once.  I thought it was cute but it built up
after that!  The two boys live with their divorced mother and they
hear that their father has been sitting his roof for three days.
They decide to go to him - it is a long trip (3 or four days of
hiking.)  They take off in the middle of the night and the tale
becomes one of survival and adventure.  On they way they talk about
the father and the older brother tells Worm he should be put in an
institution.  They end up separating and getting to the father.  The
ending is great because everything is not neatly wrapped up and they
live happily ever after.
    The book is 167 pages and is approachable by a 5th grader
although they may not grasp all the talk about the father.  It is a
good book on many levels.
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Frederick Muller
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(973) 383-7440  ext.228       59 Halsted Street
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