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MY BROTHER'S HERO
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Written by
Adrian Fogelin
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Hardcover: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-274-3
Total Pages: 224
Size: 6 x 9
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Paperback: $6.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-352-8
Total Pages: 224
Size: 6 x 8-1/2
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Middle Reader, ages 8-12/Fiction/Nature
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ADRIAN FOGELIN is the author of several novels for middle readers and young adults. She lives in Florida. Click here to learn more about her Author in Schools presentations.You can visit Adrian Fogelin's website at: www.adrianfogelin.com
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A poignant coming-of-age story set against the verdant landscape and sultry atmosphere of the Florida Keys
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Test #: Q39008
Reading Counts Level: 4.2
AR Quiz#: 62756
AR Reading Level: 3.8
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BEN FLOYD HAS A LOT on his mind. In only eighteen months he will be old enough to get a learner's permit to drive, but that seems a lifetime away. Ben enjoys the close-knit group of friends in his small neighborhood, but lately he has been longing for a taste of adventure. Keeping an eye on his younger brother Cody is getting to be a big responsibility. And he is confused by complicated feelings he has for his lifelong friend, Cass.
An unexpected turn of events finds the Floyd family in the Florida Keys over Christmas vacation and offers Ben a welcome opportunity to escape the neighborhood routine. Here he meets Mica, an independent, strong-willed girl who lives a nomadic life aboard a boat with her marine biologist father. Mica teaches Ben and Cody to fish, sail, and snorkel, and together they explore the interior canals and coastal waterways. But Ben soon realizes that adventure sometimes brings danger, and that at the center of Mica's seemingly charmed life lies a mysterious loneliness.
Young readers will relate to Ben's conflicting feelings and growing restlessness as they experience this realistic, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous portrait of adolescence by award-winning author Adrian Fogelin.
Click here for an informative Teacher's Guide for this title!
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Reviews
"As in Adrian Fogelin's previous novels, Crossing Jordan and Anna Casey's Place in the World, this story has plenty of action, but it's the emotional drama, revealed in funny, realistic dialogue and spot-on descriptions, that distinguish the novel. Readers just leaping into adolescence will easily connect with Ben, who is both sharply observant of and bewildered by the adult world and his own place in it."Booklist
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Awards
* 2006-2007 Master List, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (FL)
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More books by Author/Illustrators:
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Big Nothing, The
The sensitive and often humorous story of an adolescent boy who begins to find himself after the people he has always depended on have let him down.
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Crossing Jordan
A moving, coming-of-age story of a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town
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Real Question, The
When Fish tries to escape from the responsibilities of his overachieving life, he gains a new understanding of the dangers of neglecting his connections and commitments to others.
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Sorta Sisters, The
Award-winning author Adrian Fogelin’s latest book for middle readers follows an unlikely but enduring friendship that is forged between two adolescent girls
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