num_pages: 208
description: Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearby! Secretly, Brendan visits Ed DeBose, whose skin is pink, not brown like Brendan's, his dad's, or that of Grampa Clem's, who recently died. Brendan sets out to find the reason behind Ed's absence, but what he discovers can't be explained by science, and now he wishes he'd never found him at all. . . .
language: English
title: Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
titlecomplete: Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Contemporary, African American
ratings_count: 797
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: John Steptoe New Talent Award
category: Author
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers