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Name: Garvey's Choice
Author: Grimes, Nikki
ISBN: [978-1-63592-511-1,1-63592-511-8]

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Garvey's Choice

Author: Grimes, Nikki

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Follett Number: 1680VN9
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: WordSong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane, c2016, p2021
Format: xiii, 108 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-63592-511-1
ISBN-10: 1-63592-511-8
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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African Americans Fiction

Bullies and Bullying Fiction

Choirs (Music) Fiction

Fathers and Sons Fiction

Friendship Fiction

Novels in Verse

Overweight Persons Fiction

Preferring science and reading to the sports his father wants him to play, Garvey comforts himself with food and endures bullying before joining the school chorus, where he learns how to accept himself and bond with his father.

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This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father--by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports.

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