{"product_id":"wringer-1","title":"Wringer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe did not want to be a wringer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePalmer LaRue is rnning out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker lace? Call him a name? Stand up and fight?\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalmer thinks that becoming a wringer is something he can't stop...until the day a visitor shows up at his window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was simply, merely there, a whisper of featherwings, reminding him of the moment he dreaded above all others.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould he open the window?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his dreams the moment had already come.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould he invite fear into his room?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his dreams he looks down to find his hands around the neck of the pigeon.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it like to be hated?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor much of his life Palmer Larue had felt he was standing at the edge of a black, bottomless hole. On the fifty-ninth day before his tenth birthday, he fell in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten -- the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about himself and it's one of the biggest things he has to hide. In Palmer's town being a wringer is an honor, a tradition passed down from father to son. Palmer can't stop himself from being a wringer just like he can't stop himself from growing one year older, just like he can't stand up to a whole town -- right? Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli's most powerful novel yet is a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176544612607,"sku":"*R0056954*","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/11781263482209.jpg?v=1771347856","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/wringer-1","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}