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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
One Size Fits All

One Size Fits All

Lee, Ken

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN13: 9798676055165
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2020
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One Size Fits All is the coming of age story of a six-foot-seven eighth grade boy who is forced to leave the idyllic country town where he grew up in order to care for his grandmother in the inner city of Kansas City, MO in 1967. There he encounters prejudice for the first time. The novel begins in the summer of 1967 when our hero moves with his widowed father to live with his ailing Grandmother on the East Side of Kansas City. He discovers racism for the first time at East High, develops his first crush on a six-foot-tall girl named Jane, plays basketball as a minority member, and must learn how to communicate with his stoic father all in one school year He discovers the unspoken fears people carry about others who are different. Prejudice against those of other races, other genders, other communities, other skill sets...and especially different sizes. Butch discovers that inside, we're all the same size...and the same color.

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