Book
4 of 4 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Children's Collection
Mighty inside
Call Number
- J FRAZ (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Publication Information
Montclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2021.
Physical Description
240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants-especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere--not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane--is making him realize that he can't mutely stand by. His new friend Lenny, a fast-talking, sax-playing Jewish boy, who lives above the town's infamous (and segregated) Harlem Club, encourages Melvin to take some risks-to invite Millie to Homecoming and even audition for a local TV variety show. When they play music together, Melvin almost feels like he's talking, no words required. But there are times when one needs to speak up."--
Subjects
- Stutterers > Juvenile fiction.
- Stuttering in children > Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Middle school students > Juvenile fiction.
- Middle schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism > United States > Juvenile fiction.
- Stuttering > Juvenile fiction.
- African American boys > Juvenile fiction.
- Jewish children > Juvenile fiction.
- Schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Stutterers > Fiction.
- Stuttering > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- Middle school students > Fiction.
- Racism > Fiction.
- Spokane (Wash.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Spokane (Wash.) > Fiction.