Wringer Blog

Wringer is a 240 page novel by Jerry Spinelli about a boy of ten years old named Palmer who wishes to keep a secret pet pigeon in a town that kills 5,000 pigeons annually by gun, and hires ten year olds to wring the survivors’ neck. His friends would laugh and reject him if they knew and his dad takes part in the pigeon massacre, so has to share his secret only with his neighbor, and with her help, tell the town he doesn’t want to wring necks. This is a heartwarming story with a touching ending.