First Boy

First Boy

First edition
Author Gary Schmidt
Country United States
Language English
Genre Children's novel
Publisher Henry Holt
Publication date
2005
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 197 pp
ISBN 978-0-8050-7859-6
OCLC 57243339
LC Class PZ7.S3527 Fi 2005

First Boy is a children's novel published in 2005 by Gary Schmidt.[1] It was a Mark Twain Award nominee for the 2007–2008 year.[2]

Plot summary

Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who has run a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is. Cooper never knew his parents and his birth certificate is blacked out. Who is Cooper Jewett really? Nobody Knows.

Characters

Cooper Jewett Mrs. Perley Mr. Searle Senator Wickham Mrs. President

References


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