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Classic Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:Eleven-year-old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father?s absentmindedness under control, and managing the family budget. When Kate, Sport?s new?and nice?stepmother enters the picture, things couldn?t be better. Then comes the news: Sport?s wealthy grandfather has just died and Sport is a multimillionaire.But millions of dollars equals millions of problems, as Sport soon discovers when his mother returns show more and kidnaps him to double her share of the inheritance! Life at the Plaza Hotel is no fun when you?re a prisoner. Will Sport manage to return his life to normal?
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Sport's part of the story isn't all that interesting. But the messages about racism and classism are interesting, nuanced but clear, and unfortunately still relevant. All of Harry's peacock camouflage can't protect him from cops who want to arrest his "n.." self, and the Puerto Rican boy, Chi-chi, is almost as terrified. And they're just pre-pubescent boys....
Simon "Sport" Rocque, Harriet the Spy's best friend, undergoes dramatic life changes when his penniless novelist father re-marries and his enormously rich grandfather dies. His new-found wealth brings him into contact with his mother's family, whose attempts to control his life are frightening and clumsy. Despite a few improbable plot elements (such as the Plaza Hotel hiring junior high school-aged bellboys), this is an interesting story and a nice finish to the trilogy.
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- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Simon "Sport" Rocque; Harriet Welsch
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; New York, USA
- First words
- "Don't you understand that I was once fifteen years old? That I looked at my mother the same way you're looking at me? That I see the hatred in your eyes and the despair and the love and all of it?"
"I'm eleven," sai... (show all)d Sport. "I'll be twelve next month." - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Nothing," said Sport. "Something for kids."
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- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .F5768 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 413
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- 74,984
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- Languages
- English, German
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
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