But when he and his father move out to the country, he sees it as his “first step to my freedom. Midnight is a sensitive, imaginative boy who’s desperately in love with Poppy, despite her cruel treatment of him and others.
The book is named after its three main characters, who take turns narrating, providing us with very different views of what’s going on. “The first time I slept with Poppy, I cried,” Midnight tells us in the first sentence of April Genevieve Tucholke’s “ Wink Poppy Midnight.” That opening sets the tone for what’s to come - a story that many young readers seem to find wild, rebellious, and exciting, given its bestselling status, but that many adults are likely to see as a book about kids who are in way over their heads. (Note: This review contains minor spoilers.)
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