Paulsen, Gary. The amazing life of birds; the twenty-day puberty journal of Duane Homer Leach.PAULSEN, Gary. The amazing life of birds; the twenty-day puberty journal of Duane Homer Leach. Random House, Wendy Lamb Books. 96p. c2006. 0-385-74660-1. $13.95. (Lib. bdg: 0-385-90897-0. $15.99.) J* Duane tells what it's like to suddenly feel like "a walking zit zit n. A pimple. " in this funny diary about the trials and tribulations of being a newly adolescent boy. The 12-year-old is stuck with the nickname "Doo-Doo," for one thing, and thoughts of women's bodies, or body parts, keep popping into his head at all the wrong times. Of course, talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to actual girls is a disaster, and at school Duane has one clumsy mishap after another. When he snips off a cowlick cow·lick n. A projecting tuft of hair on the head that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and will not lie flat. cowlick Noun a tuft of hair over the forehead Noun , for example, it leaves a bald spot, and the whole student body ends up having to get checked for suspected ringworm ringworm or tinea (tĭn`ēə), superficial eruption of the skin caused by a fungus, chiefly Microsporum, Trichophyton, or Epidermophyton. . His parents and best friend are sympathetic, but it's the example of a baby bird getting ready to leave the nest that finally gives Duane the courage to make a speech in the cafeteria about what he's going through and ask for forbearance Refraining from doing something that one has a legal right to do. Giving of further time for repayment of an obligation or agreement; not to enforce claim at its due date. A delay in enforcing a legal right. . Middle-school age boys will be able to relate to this humorous take on the embarrassments of puberty, and it's a good bet for reluctant readers, too. Paulsen, the author of Hatchet hatchet: see tomahawk. and many other notable books for YAs, manages to both entertain and reassure in this short and breezy tale. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. *--The asterisk highlights exceptional books. |
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