Exploits of a reluctant (but extremely goodlooking) hero
By: Maureen Fergus
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781554530243; 9781554530250
Subjects: Boys; Voluntarism; Family; Puberty; Diaries; Fiction
Description: A selfish, unnamed 13-year-old narrator records his "diary" on a tape recorder. Hoping for fame and fortune, his mother forces him to volunteer at a soup kitchen, where he learns compassion in the struggle between the merchants who want the kitchen gone, and the volunteers who fight to keep it.