![]() Genie thought it was GREAT until he realized Ernie had no interest in learning how to shoot. It’s his 14th birthday, and Grandpop says that to be a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Then Ernie let him down in the brave department. He began to wonder if his grandfather was really that brave after all. And when he finds the secret room where Grandpop always disappears – a room so full of songbirds and plants that it’s almost pulled from the inside out. In this pitch-perfect contemporary novel (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds explores. Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy he’s ever known, but he’s starting to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house – like in NEVER. How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cooking with gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Thunderstruck, and being a curious kid, Genie questions how he covers it so well (aside from wearing Ray-Bans cool). The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia – in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie discovers that their grandfather is blind. 3/96), with deft dialogue, Northern/Southern roots, and affecting depth. ![]() A novel in the tradition of Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 (rev. When two brothers decided to prove how brave they were. Genie musters up enough courage to ask his grandfather if he will ever let go of his tragic history Grandpop’s response of maybe feels like a victory. ![]() As Brave as You is a great book by author Jason Reynolds. ![]()
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