Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen? Sara Cassidy’s acclaimed novel, A Boy Named Queen, is now available in paperback! Evelyn is both aghast and fascinated when a new boy comes to grade five and tells everyone his name is Queen. Queen wears shiny gym shorts and wants to organize a chess/environment club. His father plays weird loud music and has tattoos. How will the class react? How will Evelyn? Evelyn is an only child with a strict routine and an even stricter mother. And yet in her quiet way she notices things. She notices the way bullies don’t seem to faze Queen. The way he seems to live by his own rules. When it turns out that they take the same route home from school, Evelyn and Queen become friends, even if she finds Queen irritating at times. Why doesn’t he just shut up and stop attracting so much attention to himself. Yet Queen is the most interesting person she has ever met. So when she receives a last-minute invitation to his birthday party, she knows she must somehow persuade her mother to let her go, even if Queen’s world upends everything her mother considers appropriate. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).

"When the new boy in Evelyn's fifth-grade class tells everyone his name is Queen, Evelyn doesn't know how the class will react. She isn't even sure how she will react. Queen wears shiny gym shorts and wants to organize a chess/environment club. He seems to live by his own rules, and even the bullies don't faze him. Evelyn and Queen become friends, but sometimes she wishes he would just stop attracting so much attention to himself. Yet Queen is the most interesting person Evelyn has ever met. And when she is invited to his birthday party, she starts to discover some pretty interesting things about herself, too."--Back cover.

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