5/10/2023 0 Comments Wink poppy midnight book![]() ![]() But when he and his father move out to the country, he sees it as his “first step to my freedom. Midnight is a sensitive, imaginative boy who’s desperately in love with Poppy, despite her cruel treatment of him and others. ![]() The book is named after its three main characters, who take turns narrating, providing us with very different views of what’s going on. “The first time I slept with Poppy, I cried,” Midnight tells us in the first sentence of April Genevieve Tucholke’s “ Wink Poppy Midnight.” That opening sets the tone for what’s to come - a story that many young readers seem to find wild, rebellious, and exciting, given its bestselling status, but that many adults are likely to see as a book about kids who are in way over their heads. (Note: This review contains minor spoilers.) ![]()
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