Mercy on these teenage chimps
By: Gary Soto
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780152060220
Subjects: Coming of age; Teenage boys; Puberty; Best friends; Juvenile fiction; Friendship; Fiction
Description: At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps--long armed, big eared, and gangly--and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down.