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When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfiresâliterallyâin this âpitch-perfect contemporary novelâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King â John Steptoe Award.
Genieâs summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginiaâin the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).
How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy heâs ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the houseâas in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing intoâa room so full of songbirds and plants that itâs almost as if itâs been pulled inside-outâhe begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.
Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. Itâs his fourteenth birthday, and, Grandpop says to become a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. None. Nada. Dumbfounded by Ernieâs reluctance, Genie is left to wonderâis bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you wonât do?
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
- Family Life
- Siblings
- Family Life
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Author : Reynolds, Jason
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2017-05-09
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1481415913
ISBN-13 : 9781481415910
Item weight : 0.65 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 5.1 in x 7.4 in
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