The life and times of the last kid picked
By: David Benjamin.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Benjamin, David, 1949- -- Childhood and youth.; Tomah (Wis.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Last kid picked
Description: "Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless untamed boys who grew up in Middle America in the 1950s. Whether he's stalking frogs through the bogs of Tomah, Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favorite cousins, or sneaking into the theater to watch Saturday afternoon Westerns, Benjamin is the kind of little kid who eagerly would have fallen in with the redoubtable Tom Sawyer.".

"His tales - including one about a truly sorry incident with Snappy, the snapping turtle, and another about a run-in with a particularly fiendish squirrel - are by turns hysterically funny, caustic, aggrieved, and movingly sincere.

Traversing the nooks and crannies of kidhood, from ballfields to swimming holes, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked captures a moment in twentieth-century American life, as Benjamin magically recalls the myriad scrapes, intrepid adventures, and wanderlust that once made childhood such an exhilarating enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.