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Mikaya Press
May 2014
On Sale: May 16, 2014
160 pages
ISBN: 1931414491
EAN: 9781931414494
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Young Adult
A light-hearted tale of a boy who gains self-confidence with
the help of some timely mentoring. Albert is short — very short — and he hates it. His older
brothers are tall like his father, but he takes after his
petite mother. He wears too-large hand-me-down clothes from
his bigger brothers. And worst of all, his very best friend
moved away to Brooklyn during the school break. It was all
so unfair. Albert is beginning Middle School on Little Scrub, the small
Caribbean Island where he lives. As he steps on the bus, and
sees the older kids, he feels smaller than ever. They take
one look at him and howl with laughter, chanting "Little
Man, Little Man, you so small, didn't hardly see you at all." Things go downhill from there, and would've stayed down if
it wasn't for an encounter with Peachy, the leader of a
troupe of stiltwalkers. The stiltwalkers do a lot more than
walk: they dance and leap across the sand on spindly
eight-foot high wooden stilts, their brilliantly colored
costumes shimmering in the moonlight. Peachy invites Albert to join the high school students he
teaches to stiltwalk. It's not an easy decision for Albert.
Would they laugh at him even harder than the Middle School
kids? And he is queasy about heights. The thought of
wobbling around on those skinny wooden sticks makes him
woozy with fear. But Albert is won over by the thought that one day he might
actually be up there, tall as a palm tree, dancing around
without fear or hesitation. Besides, desperate times call
for desperate measures and nobody was more desperate than
Albert. Slowly, as his stiltwalking improves, Albert finds his
self-confidence grows. He becomes less of a target for
teasing at school and he makes some new friends.
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