Mercy on these teenage chimps

By Gary Soto

Subjects: Teenage boys, Friendship, fiction, Coming of age, Fiction, Children's fiction, Puberty, Juvenile fiction, Best friends, Friendship

Description: At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps--long armed, big eared, and gangly--and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down.