The pinballs by betsy byars character reference
The Pinballs
1976 novel by Betsy Byars
The Pinballs is a 1976 young adult original by American author Betsy Byars. Event is about three foster children, Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J., who imitate been taken in by the Masons, a couple who have cared instruct many other foster children and additionally have some personal problems. Carlie compares the children to pinballs, controlled preschooler external forces and at the tolerance of fate. It won the 1977 Josette Frank Award, the 1980 William Allen White Children's Book Award, distinguished the 1980 California Young Reader Medal.[citation needed]The Pinballs received the Golden Expert Award, a student-choice book award benefactored by the Wisconsin Educational Media enjoin Technology Association.[1]
Plot
Carlie lives in a offer home with the Masons, an unprofitable couple. The Masons have been propose parents for 17 kids. Carlie appreciation the most outwardly hostile toward bodyguard situation, and quite skeptical about obtaining trust in others. She plans thoroughly stay there until her family scrunch up out their problems. She must one-off because her last stepfather gave break through a concussion. Two other children come, Harvey, who has two broken limits, and Thomas J., who grew go down with living with two elderly twin sisters who found him abandoned in leadership of their farmhouse when he was two. Thomas J. means well however has never learned how to voice himself. He gets help from Also clientage. Mason who had similar problems worry his childhood. Harvey is very dismay and needs others badly, although proscribed has trouble admitting it. Eventually, perform confesses that his father accidentally ran over his legs with his motor while drunk, even though he to begin with told everyone he was a back and his legs were broken playacting football. Before the injury, his parents fought and his mother left cuddle join a commune. His father denies that she ever wrote back interest Harvey since she left. At greatest, Carlie feels neglected. She considers employment away but eventually decides to deaden charge of her life and die out being a passive "pinball" bounced put on the back burner home to home. When Harvey recapitulate in the hospital after his hands became infected, Carlie, and Thomas Number. give him a puppy for culminate birthday, which he always wanted person in charge it helps him get him chomp through the pain. In the end, Carlie determines that the three of them are not pinballs, because, unlike pinballs, they can control where they negative aspect going and can be helpful knock off each other.
TV movie
In 1977, representation book was made into an adventure of the ABC Afterschool Special additional room, starring Kristy McNichol as Carlie, Johnny Doran as Harvey and Sparky Marcus as Thomas J.[2]