num_pages: 410
description: When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are everything backfiresliterally.Genies summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother Ernie are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginiain the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck andbeing a curious kidGenie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he covers it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy hes ever known but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the houseas in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing intoa room so full of songbirds and plants that its almost as if its been pulled inside-outhe begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. Its his fourteenth birthday and Grandpop says to become a man you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. None. Nada. Dumbfounded by Ernies reluctance Genie is left to wonderis bravery and becoming a man only about proving something or is it just as important to own up to what you wont do?
language: English
title: As Brave As You
publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books