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Anthony (Tony) Miglione – Protagonist of the book who is 12 (later 13) years old, the youngest of three boys. Victor (Vic) Miglione – Tony's father, who is a freelance electrician and an inventor whose invention changes their lives. Carmella Miglione – Tony's mother, who eventually goes by the name Carol, much to Tony's dismay. She ...
Children's literature portal; Awkward is a 2015 children's graphic novel written by Svetlana Chmakova.The book tells the story of Penelope "Peppi" Torres, a new student at Berrybrook Middle School, whose first encounter with a boy from the science club leads to much awkwardness between them, and their sparring clubs.
He is accompanied by his school friend Chechevitsyn. Very soon Volodya's sisters Katya, Sonya and Masha start to notice peculiarities in the boys' behavior. Both are absent-minded, look mysterious, rarely answer questions properly and if speak at all, then with enigmatic one-liners, like "In California they drink gin instead of tea."
It became the subsidiary's best-selling book with 100,000 copies in print as of 2000, [20] and was included on school reading lists and gathered a cult following. [21] By 2012, the novel had been published in 16 countries in 13 languages, [ 22 ] and that same year it placed at number 16 on NPR 's list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels.' [ 23 ]
8 years ago, Lafayette's brother Charlie was sent to a juvenile detention center, Rahway Home for Boys, for robbing a candy store. Since Charlie's return, twelve-year old Lafayette has thought of him as "Newcharlie" because of his changed behavior. In Charlie and Lafayette's shared bedroom, Charlie and his new friend Aaron discuss who's the ...
Kyle Kingsbury (a.k.a."Adrian") is the son of Manhattan's news anchor, Rob Kingsbury.He is tall, blonde, rich, and handsome. He is the most popular guy in school and dates the hottest girls; however, starts the book as a shallow and lonely bully, feeling abandoned by his father and regularly dishing out cruelty to people less well off than himself.
Boy Meets Boy focuses on the gay community through a teenager's eyes through a "delightfully reversed, pro-gay high school" setting. "[The book is] an upbeat story about acceptance and teen love long before the all-singing, all-dancing cast of Glee arrived on TV," seeing as Boy Meets Boy was published in 2003. [5]
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson that serves as the beginning of Patterson's Middle School series. [1] Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on June 27, 2011, the book follows sixth grader Rafe Khatchadorian as he begins middle school and copes with the awkwardness of adolescence, "crushes, bullying, family issues ...