Garvey’s Choice
by Nikki Grimes

    List Price: $9.99
    Wordsong (Sep 14, 2021)
    Fiction, Paperback, 128 pages
    Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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    Description of Garvey’s Choice by Nikki Grimes

    This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself.

    Garvey’s father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading—anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey’s life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father—by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports.

    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
    A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

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