Lee Bloom is drawn to the mysterious house on Ave J, where she meets Polly Burke, a girl who has indoor shipwrecks and poisoned-tea parties, and is taking flying lessons.Soon Polly recruits Lee to help fight the pirates that are coming to Brooklyn in a cloudship galleon. But pirates aren't the only menace in Brooklyn in 1960. The bigotry of the girls' mothers threatens to destroy their friendship, unless they can figure out a way around it-or above it!
*Best Books of 2002, Bank Street College of Education
*Top 10 Books for Youth About Religion, Booklist
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Phyllis Shalant's books for children and young adults include The Society of Super Secret Heroes: The Great Cape Rescue; Bartleby of the Mighty Mississippi; abd Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips. The author lives in White Plains, New York with her husband and her dog Ozzie.
Gr. 4-7. Lee feels like the Rapunzel of Brooklyn, although she is stuck in a fourth-floor apartment instead of a tower. Her best friend, wheelchair-bound by polio, has moved to Florida; Eddie, the misfit new boy in sixth grade, keeps harassing her; and her mom doesn't want her to associate with schwartzer (blacks) or goyim (non-Jews). When Lee is invited to play at Polly Burke's big house, she is immediately drawn into pretend games of shipwrecks, a poisoned tea party, and flying lessons. When Lee and Polly plot to help Peter Pan fight pirates coming by cloud-ship galleon, fantasy fringes on reality. It seems that pirates aren't the only threat in Brooklyn in 1960: the bias and bigotry of the girls' mothers--each staunch in her religious convictions--works to break apart the children's friendship. Lee's voice is that of a young girl caught between believing in the fantastical and learning the realities of prejudice. The conflict forces her to ask what it means to be Jewish and question whether Jews go to heaven or hell or, maybe, Neverland. Place and time are exceptionally well defined in this perceptive story that tackles an age-old dilemma for children: Are parents always right? Today's readers may not understand why Lee, at 11, can still believe in fairy tales and invisible things, but they will relate to her courage to question the world around her. Julie Cummins
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