Peter Johnson

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

negative, adjective: (1) characterized by lacking positive attributes; (2) Benny Alvarez

contrary, adjective: (1) stubbornly opposed or willful; (2) Benny Alvarez

family, noun: (1) any group of persons closely related by blood or marriage; (2) Mom, Dad, Irene, Benny, Crash, Grandpa Alvarez, and Gloria

love, noun: a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection

loss, noun: (1) the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had; (2) something that is lost; (3) death, or the fact of being dead

Everyone thinks Benny Alvarez is Mr. Negativity. According to Benny, he's just realistic about seeing the "other side" of thingswhen it comes to almost everything.

But maybe there's a different way to deal with the things Benny can't controllike his ailing grandfather, his wild younger brother, and the know-it-all girls at school.

In this poignant novel about acceptance, Benny Alvarez will have to decide . . . is the glass half empty or half full?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062215987
• Artikelnr.: 41003801

Autorenporträt

Peter Johnson grew up in Buffalo, New York, at a time when they had a good football team, which seems like fifty years ago. Similar to Benny Alvarez and his friends, Peter always loved words, knowing he was going to be a teacher or a professional baseball player. Also, being from a long line of Irish storytellers, he loved reading and telling tales, and when he realized that his stories changed every time he told them, and that he could get paid for this kind of lying, he decided to become a novelist. His first middle grade novel, The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini, was named one of the Best Children's Books by Kirkus Reviews, and he's received many writing fellowships, most notably from the National Endowment for the Arts.