![]() ![]() When the new boy, Eloy Herrera expresses an interest in trying out, Will agrees to help Eloy make the team. But he's still wrestling with the racial slur that flew so effortlessly from his friend, Darryl's mouth and he'd rather be concentrating on making the wrestling team. Instead, he finds himself dubbed, "Bug Boy," and his feat is now school legend. When seventh grader Will Nolan chooses to pop a stink bug into his mouth to defuse a tense situation between one of his best friends and a new student in school, he's convinced that he will be the school pariah when he returns the following day, especially given the fact that he puked in front of his whole class. Every kind of reader will be intrigued with Boy Bites Bug. The alliterative, embossed cover will definitely garner attention if displayed prominently in your library. ![]() She adroitly serves up insight along with shiver-inducing delight. Rebecca Petruck explores that as well as racism, white privilege and wrestling in this engaging story. I have often pondered (*) the vagaries of popularity and what makes something cool or uncool. (Review from finished copy courtesy of publisher.) ![]()
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