As Brave as You基本信息Paperback: 432 pagesAge Range: 9 - 12 yearsPublisher: Atheneum Books; Reprint ed. edition (9 May 2017)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1481415913ISBN-13: 978-1481415910Product Dimensions: 127 x 188 x 30mm | 295g页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准书籍简介Kirkus Award FinalistSchneider Family Book Award WinnerCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookWhen two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally--in this "pitch-perfect contemporary novel" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by ... 展开完整描述 ▼
As Brave as You
基本信息
Paperback: 432 pages
Age Range: 9 - 12 years
Publisher: Atheneum Books; Reprint ed. edition (9 May 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1481415913
ISBN-13: 978-1481415910
Product Dimensions: 127 x 188 x 30mm | 295g
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
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 backfires--literally--in this "pitch-perfect contemporary novel" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award.
Genie"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 Virginia--in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides 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 he"s ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house--as in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing into--a room so full of songbirds and plants that it"s almost as if it"s been pulled inside-out--he begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.
Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. It"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 Ernie"s reluctance, Genie is left to wonder--is bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you won"t do?
作者简介
Jason Reynolds is the New York Times best-selling author of All American Boys, the Track series, Long Way Down, For Everyone, and Miles Morales-Spiderman.
He is an American author who writes novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences, including Ghost, a National Book Award Finalist for Young People"s Literature.
Born in Washington, DC and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap to begin writing poetry at nine years old. He focused on poetry for approximately the next two decades, only reading a novel cover to cover for the first time at age 17 and publishing several poetry collections before he published his own first novel, When I Was The Greatest, in 2014. He won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for this first work of prose and seven more novels followed in the next four years, including Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny (2018); As Brave As You (2016), winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the 2017 Schneider Family Book Award; and a Marvel Comics novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017).
Reynolds returned to poetry with Long Way Down (2017), a novel in verse which was named a Newbery Honor book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the Mystery Writers of America"s Edgar Awards.
