Sister of the Quints

by Stella Pevsner

Book Overview

They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been supplied wherever necessary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899194982
• ISBN13: 9780899194981
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A different sort of YA story...

When Natalie Wentworth's stepmother became pregnant, no one imagined there might be FIVE babies! Yet now, a year later, the household is chaos as the quintuplets become more active, tearing around the house, scaring away babysitters and causing the family financial worries. It's hard enough being thirteen, but Natalie's getting sick of being a constant second place to her father's *new* children. She sees a clear solution -- moving to Colorado to live with her mother. After all, Natalie's mother has always wanted her, and it'd be wonderful, just the two of them in a peaceful apartment. Yet despite her daily irritation, Natalie knows she loves her brothers and sisters, as well as the life she's built with her father and stepmother. How can she just leave the quints? Not only that, but there's her friends at school, as well as a new crush, Noel... Pevsner does an excellent job, interspersing typical adolescent interests and worries with the unique situation of being "sister of the quints."