I met the author, Torrey Maldonado, at the Young Adult Literature Symposium in November 2012. He interrupted someone else's session by being loud and silly, not just once but several times. I was prepared not to like his book, but I was wrong.
Mr Maldonado gets us inside the head of a 12-year-old, half Puerto Rican, half Black kid from the Red Hook Projects in Brooklyn. The dialog rings true and the descriptions of the hallways or their mothers or other students shows us the author is writing about part of his own middle school years.
I like that a male author is trying to show his readers the importance of friendship over always trying to save face. He
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