num_pages: 144
description: You can't always decide where life will take you—especially when you're a kid.Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgement, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own lives.
language: English
title: The Pinballs
titlecomplete: The Pinballs (Apple Paperbacks)
genres: Fiction, Juvenile, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Fostering, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3163
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
publisher: HarperCollins