Garvey's Choice

Garvey's Choice
Nikki Grimes
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Paperback
h187 x 127mm - 120pg
14 Sep 2021 US
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9781635925111
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This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. Garvey' s father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading-anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey' s life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father-by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports. AKirkus ReviewsBest Book of the YearASchool Library JournalBest Book of the Year
' Grimes returns to the novel-in-verse format, creating voice, characters, and plot in a series of pithy tanka poems, a traditional Japanese form similar to haiku, but using five lines. . . . (w)ritten from Garvey' s point of view, the succinct verses convey the narrative as well as his emotions with brevity, clarity, and finesse. ' -Booklist, starred review "(A) sensitively written middle grade novel in verse. . . (readers) will fall hard for Garvey, a tender, sincere boy who dislikes athletics. Grimes writes about adolescent friendships in a way that feels deeply human. A short, sweet, satisfying novel in verse that educators and readers alike will love. " -School Library Journal, starred review "Grimes' newest follows a young black boy searching for his own unique voice, lost among his father' s wishes and society' s mischaracterizations. This compassionate, courageous, and hopeful novel explores the constraints placed on black male identity and the corresponding pains and struggles that follow when a young black boy must confront these realities both at home and in school. . . . This graceful novel risks stretching beyond easy, reductive constructions of black male coming-of-age stories and delivers a sincere, authentic story of resilience and finding one' s voice. " -Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey. . . (e)mploying the Japanese poetic form of tanka-five-line poems (or, here, stanzas) with haiku-like syllable counts-Grimes reveals Garvey' s thoughts, feelings, and observations, the spare poetry a good vehicle for a young man' s attempts to articulate the puzzle that is his life. " -The Horn Book
Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her books include the New York Times best seller Barack Obama- Son of Promise, Child of Hope and the Dyamonde Daniel chapter-book series. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Bronx Masquerade and earned a Coretta Scott King Author Honor five times-for Words with Wings, Jazmin' s Notebook, Dark Sons, Talkin' about Bessie, and The Road to Paris. She is also the author of her critically acclaimed memoir in verse Ordinary Hazards. She lives in Corona, California. Visit nikkigrimes. com.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781635925111
Published: 14 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Calkins Creek
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Format: Paperback
Height: 187mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 120

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