The Planet of Junior Brown
Publisher: Aladdin; Macmillan
Published: April 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781416914105
Subjects: People & Places - United States - African-American; Hamilton, Virginia; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Social Situations - Friendship; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Social Issues - Friendship; Juvenile Fiction / Ethnic / African American; African Americans; Fiction; Friendship
First sentence: The three of them were hidden in the dark.
Description: Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.