Description
Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who’s prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.
Most of the time they have been in the school building — in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months…and then they are caught. As society — in the form of a zealous assistant principal — closes in on them, Junior’s fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend’s well-being.A Newbery Honor Book. “Two black eighth-grade boys in New York–one a neurotic, obese, musical prodigy, the other a homeless, tough-minded child of the streets–are the protagonists in an extraordinary story of heroism and survival and the interdependence of human beings”.–ALA Notable Children’s Books Committee.Ages 8-12.
Aladdin Paperbacks
Juvenile Fiction
Social Themes
Edition: Friendship, Juvenile Fiction
Keywords: Social Themes
