Homer Price
Book description
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk.
The comic genius of Robert McCloskey…
Why read it?
1 author picked Homer Price as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In 1968, a beautiful thing happened. A book fair came to the gym of my elementary school in Middletown, Ohio. My lunch money could buy only one book. After half an hour, I made my purchase. Even back then, I would rather read than eat.
I read those six short stories multiple times, at least once a year, and when the time came, I passed it on to my kids, who also read it and passed it on to theirs.
Yes, this is a kid’s book. And half a century later, you can still get it for the price of…
From Brad's list on heartwarming stories about life in a small town.
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