Mr. Berry's Ice Cream Parlour

Carl's rather prosaic life changes when Mr. Berry first lets him help in the ice cream parlour---then becomes his stepfather. A gifted writer shows the excitement of changing lives through such artless techniques as dialogue and the interplay of chapters. Like Jan Mark, she can show children and grown ups edging up to one another, slowly making relationships. Eights to elevens will hear all that from the voices on the page. A good addition to classroom collections.