Bound To Stay Bound

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Booklist - 07/01/2017 *Starred Review* Disheartened that he’s unable to protect his mother from her latest abusive boyfriend, Maverick decides to model his sixth-grade persona on his favorite superheroes (Spider-Man and Captain America) by doing good deeds and protecting smaller, weaker kids at school. “Assuming I could find anybody smaller or weaker than I was.” From his first official visit to the assistant principal’s office (within an hour of starting middle school) to his last one, when he realizes who his heroes really are and what he wants to become in seventh grade, this engaging first-person narrative captures idealism trampled—but also transformed into something more durable and worthwhile. Maverick is a conscientious kid in a household where the refrigerator is often empty and the single parent is loving, if also alcoholic, needy, and dysfunctional, and he makes for a memorable character among many who are realistically complex and contradictory. The girl who disparages Maverick secretly admires him. The “smaller, weaker” boy who rejects his blundering attempt to rescue him later becomes an on-again, off-again friend. Meanwhile, after months of tormenting Maverick, the bully delivers a hard, damaging punch, followed by a surprising act of self-sacrifice and courage. The adult characters are just as quirky, well-drawn, and believable. A rewarding novel, lit with flashes of irrepressible humor. - Copyright 2017 Booklist.

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