Review of Garvey's Choice
Dean Schneider,
Jun 23, 2017
Garvey’s Choiceby Nikki GrimesIntermediate, Middle School WordSong/Boyds Mills 108 pp.10/16 978-1-62979-740-3 $16.95e-book ed. 978-1-62979-747-2 $7.99In a little book of little poems, Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey (named after Marcus Garvey), an overweight boy tormented by name-calling at school: “lard butt, fatso, Mister Tubs.” Of his size, he says,...