num_pages: 240
description: Newbery Medalist Richard Peck brings us this big-hearted novel about gay marriage from a kids endearing perspectiveWhen Archer is in sixth grade his beloved uncle Paul marries another manArchers favorite student teacher. But thats getting ahead of the story and a wonderful story it is. In Archers sweetly nave but observant voice his life through elementary school is recounted: the outspoken ever-loyal friends he makes the teachers who blunder or inspire and the family members who serve as his role models. From one exhilarating unexpected episode to another Archers story rolls along as he puzzles over the people in his life and the kind of person he wants to becomeand manages to help his uncle become his best self as well.
language: English
title: The Best Man
publisher: Dial Books