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The Brave ReviewSonny Bear, half Native American teen, feels like things are going really badly in his life. His mother left him with her uncle on a reservation while she went off to see her fortune in some city. He'd like to join the Army, but he is a little too young. He is a talented boxer, competing in small-town fights, but things aren't right there, either. It seems he always ends up getting treated unfairly by the hometown referees.
Finally Sonny is fed up. He decides to track down his mother in New York and get her to sign the release papers so he can join the Army and get away from his dead-end life. Things don't go as smoothly as he planned, though.
Just moments off the bus in New York, Sonny meets Stick and Doll, a couple of con artists involved in drug dealing. Even though Sonny knows they are probably no good, he can't help being attracted to Doll and wanting to help her. When he gets caught transporting drugs for Stick, he even refuses to cooperate with the police, for fear that not only Stick, but Doll as well will end up arrested.
The police officer chasing Stick has a soft spot for Sonny, though, because he used to be a boxer himself and would like to see Sonny succeed instead of falling through the cracks of the system. He intercedes on Sonny's behalf and guides him through boxing training instead of sending him to jail. But Doll still remains on Sonny's mind. Will he be able to resist going back to her and Stick?
I felt like I understood the appeal of boxing much more after reading this book. It didn't seem quite as senseless to me as it had before. I liked the character of Jake and his incorporation of Native American training into Sonny's boxing training.
I couldn't believe, though, that Sonny would be so stupid as to be blinded by Stick and Doll, who were obviously taking advantage of him. I also didn't believe that Sonny would be allowed out of custody in order to train to be a boxer.The Brave Overview

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Airball: My Life in Briefs Review

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Airball: My Life in Briefs Review"Airball: My Life in Briefs," is about Kirby Nickel, a 7th grader who lives with his grandmother and has never seen his mom or dad. Kirby is the Captain of his 7th grade basketball team, and the book tells the story about Kirby and his team as they go through their season with the hope of visiting their hero Brent McGrew. Kirby wants to meet Brent because he thinks that Brent is his dad.
The book starts out at basketball practice and the coach announces that if they have a good season that he will take them to see Brent McGrew when he gets his jersey retired at the University of Kansas. Brent is a famous NBA basketball player who played in Kirby's town when he was younger. Everyone is excited about possibly seeing Brent McGrew, but they are not sure if they will be able to because the team has not been good since Brent McGrew played there. Kirby's coach also was not sure that they would be able to win, so he came up with a plan to have them practice in their underwear.
That week the coach orders uniforms, but he doesn't give it to the team. Instead he makes them practice in their underwear until they get better at basketball and they become a team. They start to play better so for their first game, the coach gives them really nice uniforms. Kirby and his team like the uniforms, but they don't play very well. At halftime, Kirby said that they don't deserve to wear the uniforms so they take their uniforms off and play in their underwear for the second half. In the second half, they come back and win the game so they decide to wear underwear as their uniform for the rest of the season and they win all of their games without their uniforms.
During the season, Kirby finds some clues that Brent McGrew may be his Dad. In Kirby's attic, he found a Brent McGrew jersey, a medal, and a picture of his mom and Brent dancing. He also realized that he and Brent had the same birth mark. So, at the end of the season, when they meet Brent McGrew, Kirby gives him an envelope with all of the clues showing that Brent might be his dad. Brent said that he wasn't the guy in the picture, but the coach took a look at the pictures and said that they were pictures of him. He then realized that he was Kirby's dad. They were happy after that and the book ended with Kirby and his team scrimmaging again Brent McGrew.
I recommend this book to other kids my age because I like basketball and it was funny.
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