A few seconds of radiant filmstrip

By Kevin Brockmeier

Subjects: Boys, Biography, American Authors, Authors, american, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Childhood and youth, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Social life and customs, United states, social life and customs, Preteens

Description: "At age twelve, [the American novelist] Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been--the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes--but someone else altogether. Over the course of one school year--seventh grade--he sets out in search of himself"--Page 4 of cover.