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Earle, Phil

The Bubble Wrap Boy

279 pp. | Delacorte | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-553-51315-8 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-553-51316-5 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-51317-2
(4) 4-6 Short, clumsy fourteen-year-old Charlie lives with his family above their Chinese takeout restaurant, and his only friend is bullied oddball Sinus. Charlie discovers his one true talent--skateboarding--at the same time he discovers his overprotective mother's life-size secret. Written in Charlie's humorous, hyperbolic first-person voice, the story is sometimes implausible and its depiction of the Chinese British tends toward stereotypical.
Reviewer: Amy Seto Forrester

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