As Brave As You

As Brave As You

Kirkus Award Finalist
Schneider Family Book Award Winner
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfiresâ€”literallyâ€”in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King â€“ John Steptoe Award.

Genieâ€™s 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 Virginiaâ€”in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck andâ€”being a curious kidâ€”Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he covers 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 heâ€™s ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the houseâ€”as in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing intoâ€”a room so full of songbirds and plants that itâ€™s almost as if itâ€™s been pulled inside-outâ€”he begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.

Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. Itâ€™s 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 Ernieâ€™s reluctance, Genie is left to wonderâ€”is bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you wonâ€™t do?
Country USA
Brand Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781481415903

Country	USA
Brand	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Manufacturer	Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781481415903

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