A Boy Named Queen
On our website ( here ), my friend and co-worker Lauryssa left a short review of A Boy Named Queen : " Short and sweet, this is an excellent story to help kids to deal with bullies and to accept others (and themselves) just as they are." She recommended this read to me the other day - whether she expected me to actually follow through is besides the point, and I did that very day, to my great delight and pleasure. A Boy Named Queen is an excellent, short chapter book starring a ten or twelve year old girl who is just going back to school, and on her first day, a new student is transferred into her class. His name is Queen. It's incredible how one small detail - one small quirk - that causes a person to stand out from the crowd can pave the way for all kinds of bullying and harmful teasing. But we've all seen it happen. From where the narrator sits, the only thing really different about Queen is his name: Queen. He is just as interesting or uninter