About this title: Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearby! Secretly, Brendan visits Ed DeBose, whose skin is pink, not brown like Brendan's, his dad's, or that of Grampa Clem's, who recently died. Brendan sets out to find the reason behind Ed's absence, but what he discovers can't be explained by science, and now he wishes he'd never found him ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385734394ISBN:0385734395
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN-13:9780385734394ISBN:0385734395
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yearling
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780440422068ISBN:044042206X
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Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN-13:9780385904452ISBN:0385904452
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Edition: Advance Reading Copy-1st Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Glossy Pictorial Wraps
Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York
Date Published: October 23, 2007
Description: AS NEW in WRAPS. 8vo (5-1/2 x 8-1/4), 199 pp. Advance Reader's Copy is FINE--Unread, Unmarked, and AS NEW in AS NEW glossy pictorial wraps. For ages 9-12. (dc) Brendan Buckley is 10 years old, a Tae Kwan Do blue belt who keeps a confidential notebook for his scientific discoveries. But the secret discovery he's made is a grandpa he's never met, a man his mother refuses to meet or even talk about, who lives nearby, and whose skin is pink, not brown like his or his father's or Grampa Clem's. But ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Date Published: 2007-10-23
ISBN-13:9780385734394ISBN:0385734395
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385734394ISBN:0385734395
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780739379103ISBN:0739379100
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"Brendan has to come to terms with the idea that his white grandfather is of the opinion that black and white people can be friends but are genetically incompatible ie his parents shouldn't have married and Brendan shouldn't exist. Well written with a good message that is sold in the story, you don't really think about the issues, just the characters in the book."
"Brendan is into science. There are so many questions to find the answers to, and he keeps them all in his top secret notebook of scientific discovery. He is mastering the study of Tae Kwon Do, and is working on creating his own rock collection. Brendan is thrilled to meet Ed DeBose, who is a famous rock collector. He is even more excited when he learns that Ed is actually his long-lost grandpa! Brendan's parents don't want to talk about why Ed hasn't been part of the family. Can Brendan use his detective powers to solve the mystery?"
"I was excited to read this book and had high expectations--it is a Coretta Scott King award winner. Brendan thinks of himself as a scientist and as the book progresses also begins collecting rocks. The family issues (an estranged white grandfather and a recently deceased black grandfather) and the name-calling (because he's biracial) he deals with throughout the books are constantly compared to the rocks he is collecting. He is the one that draws these comparisons...it seemed unlikely that a 10-year-old boy would be thinking this way, but I'm not a 10-year-old boy, so what do I know."
"Enjoyable to read. Learned new things about rocks. I was nervous about how it would play out because it is a book about the conflict of racism towards blacks but it played out very nicely."
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