![]() With nostalgic black-and-white photos from the era throughout, this treasure of a book offers an authentic, poignant glimpse into one family's struggle to stay together when the world around them was falling apart. And soon, soon, she knows her parents will stop fighting, her hunger pangs will subside, and her family will laugh again. Title: That Scatterbrain Booky Format: Paperback Product dimensions: 176 pages, 7.6 X 5.25 X 0.45 in Shipping dimensions: 176 pages, 7.6 X 5.25 X 0. Yes, life is full of setbacks.īut through the eyes of Booky Thomson the world has an energetic, rosy tinge: there are street games to play at night with the neighbourhood kids butter and white sugar sandwiches important talks with her Grandpa riding the streetcar to her Aunt Susan's nut and candy shop and an oh-so-special afternoon at the talking picture show. Justin Case is out to avenge the death of his par. But Scatter is about to find out life isnt fair. Scatter would rather do what he does best, terrorize the city with his pack of Killer Brain friends. ![]() But he cant, his parents want him to get a job. ![]() Booky's father can't find work her mother is expecting another baby the bailiff keeps threatening to evict the family from their home and her older brother Arthur is terribly annoying. Just ask Scatter, a Killer Brain who just wants to be a Killer Brain. It's almost 1933 and the Great Depression has hit the east end of Toronto. Scatterbrained, incorrigible and irrepressible - Booky will win you over in this Canadian classic set in Depression-era Toronto. ![]()
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