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Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family
Steve Schirripa
What happens when 12-year-old Nicholas Borelli II leaves the posh suburbs to live with his Grandma Tutti in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, one summer? Fugheddaboudit.
Delacorte
September 2005
Featuring: Nicholas Borelli
176 pages ISBN: 0385732570 Hardcover
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It's July, and Nicholas Borelli II's parents are scheduled
to spend two weeks on a cruise. Nicholas will spend those
two weeks, as he does every summer, at Camp Wannameka. The
night before he's to leave, however, there's a phone call:
thanks to an explosion in the septic system, camp is
canceled. The only place for Nicholas to go instead is to
his grandmother's house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. Nicholas's father grew up in Brooklyn, but you'd hardly know
it. An Italian dinner at Nicholas's house in the suburbs is
whole wheat pasta, organic tomato sauce, and, if he's lucky,
a tofu meatball. And Brooklyn? Well, Brooklyn is the place
his father left and never talks about. Nicholas has never
been there, and he doesn't want to go now. But when Nicholas tastes his grandma Tutti's meatballs for
the first time, gets a nickname from his uncle Frankie, and
makes a friend in the neighborhood, his feelings about
Brooklyn--and family--begin to change.
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