The Tooth

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Call Number: Kids Book / Picture Books / Big Changes / Lost Tooth
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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First published in 2009 under the title La carie by Les Éditions les 400 coups, Montréal (Canada); translated from the English by Catherine Germain.
Marissa's tooth aches, so Mother takes her downtown to the dentist. Across the street, Marissa spies a homeless man, sitting on a grate collecting money in a shoe box. Later, Marissa observes the man again as people walk by, stepping over him, sometimes dropping coins in his box. Finally, after her extraction, Marissa pulls away from her mother to drop her tooth into the man's box, telling him to put it under his pillow that night. The story ends with the narrator commenting on the fate of the homeless man: "Now all he needed . . . was a pillow."
Contents: Tooth.

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