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Publication
Carroll & Graf (2005), Paperback, 137 pages
Description
A gay 12 year old boy begins his first year of junior high with the vow that this will be the year that he kisses a boy. Like The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers--only lighter, brighter and more youthful--The Boys and the Bees is set in Minneapolis and involves a confused but sweet adolescent kid coming to grips with growing up gay and feeling completely lost about it.
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LibraryThing member starlight70
I won't give this book a low rating just because I thought Andy, the main character, was irritating. Trust me, Andy was irritating in the book. And bad. Not horribly bad, but self-centered, delusional and self-deceiving. Irritating.
Then again, why we not someone like Andy when we were young, trying
Babcock caught those moments in the book and he delivered Andy well, as someone we could relate to in this The Boys and the Bees.
Yeah, the chapters were short and the writing was based on the simplest English terms. Somehow, I welcome that. It was nice to have a book that was more keen in telling the story, instead of trying to use bombastic words to tell.. perhaps just a mood in the afternoon. Using 3 paragraphs. Nope, Babcock did not do that. He kept the story-telling simple, befitting the events of a kid.
Yes, I thought the book ended kinda abrupt. It did not even end the way I was hoping, although I thought that there would be a threesome if there should be a next chapter.. Well, I thought.
I liked this book. It was easy to read and appreciate.
Then again, why we not someone like Andy when we were young, trying
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to keep secret that put so much fear in us that we would hope something this dark (secret) would be someone's problem and not ours? Didn't we wish we could have all - popularity, good-looking guy as our best friend, attention, coolest gang etc?Babcock caught those moments in the book and he delivered Andy well, as someone we could relate to in this The Boys and the Bees.
Yeah, the chapters were short and the writing was based on the simplest English terms. Somehow, I welcome that. It was nice to have a book that was more keen in telling the story, instead of trying to use bombastic words to tell.. perhaps just a mood in the afternoon. Using 3 paragraphs. Nope, Babcock did not do that. He kept the story-telling simple, befitting the events of a kid.
Yes, I thought the book ended kinda abrupt. It did not even end the way I was hoping, although I thought that there would be a threesome if there should be a next chapter.. Well, I thought.
I liked this book. It was easy to read and appreciate.
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LibraryThing member satyridae
6th graders are meaner'n hell, especially if you're a boy who acts gay, or worse, is gay. My 6th grade son read this and pronounced it profane but true-to-life. I found it to be skin-crawlingly uncomfortable to read. I worried about the boys in the book, and wondered why they had to act like such
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idiots. It's believable and immediate and gripping. Show Less
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Physical description
137 p.; 7.4 inches
ISBN
0786716479 / 9780786716470
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OCLC = 165
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