- Fiction, African Americans, Friendship, Juvenile fiction
Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.
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Intimate, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Virginia Hamilton
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 210
- Publisher
- Aladdin, Collier Books, Chivers
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575041059
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Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote. Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1969, Hamilton and her family moved
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