Book Descriptions
for RiTS by Mariken Jongman
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Rits is living with his Uncle Corry while his father travels with a girlfriend and his mother is in a rest home. Trying to make the best of a confusing situ ation, Rits begins to cook for his unemployed, unkempt uncle. As they try to work out their lives together, Uncle Corry begins to care. When Rits’s father arrives to take him home, Uncle Corry tells Rits that he is always welcome to come back. There is an uncertainty about Rits’s future, but the reader does know that no matter what happens he will be a survivor . pwc
Originally published as Rits in Dutch by Lemniscaat The Neth erlands, in 2005. Translated by Wanda Boeke.