Paul Fleischman's interest in multi-voice narratives is evident in many of his other books. In Whirligig (1998), high school junior Brent Bishop kills a teenager in a drunk driving accident. As a form of penance, he makes plywood whirligigs and places them in the four corners of the United States— Maine, Florida, California, and Washington; the novel describes Brent's experiences, as well as the stories of those who discover the whirligigs. Seedfolks (1997) is the story of a child who begins an urban garden and is joined in this pursuit by community members of various ages and backgrounds, who tell their individual stories in concise firstperson narratives. Fleischman has also used this technique in his historical novel Bull Run (1993), which tells of that Civil War battle in the voices of a dozen people who were.....
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