http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/tags/multiracial/default.aspxTags: multiracialenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2009/09/14/brendan-buckley-s-universe-and-everything-in-it.aspxMon, 14 Sep 2009 21:26:00 GMT9a7b961d-7882-4302-b701-732ca0e566f2:1851kiya@evpl0http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=1851http://evpl.org/community/blogs/kids/archive/2009/09/14/brendan-buckley-s-universe-and-everything-in-it.aspx#comments<p><a target="_blank" href="http://encore.evpl.org/iii/encore/search/C%7CSbrendan+buckley%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&amp;suite=def" title="record for Brendan Buckley&#39;s Universe"><img width="200" src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=III21&amp;Password=BT0005&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=L&amp;Value=0385734395" alt="book jacket for Brendan Buckley&#39;s universe" height="300" style="vertical-align:middle;" /></a></p> <p>Brendan is a ten year old scientist.&nbsp; He likes to understand the world and how it works. He has a whole notebook of the questions he has about the world, and the answers he has discovered.&nbsp; Brendan is ten, and one day at a rock show at the mall, he accidentally runs into the grandfather he has never met - his mom&#39;s dad. No one will tell him why his grandpa Ed lives ten miles away, and they&#39;ve never met.&nbsp; Brandon begins to suspect that it is because his mom is white, and his dad is black. &nbsp;&nbsp;Brandon is already struggling to understand why the color of his skin makes a difference to people he doesn&#39;t even know, and finding that some questions just don&#39;t seem to have good answers.</p> <p>This is an interesting, thought-provoking book about a subject that can be hard for kids to understand. Sundee Frazier, the author, is multi-racial, and makes the subject accessible to pre-teens. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://evpl.org/community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1851" width="1" height="1">fictionboysmultiracialrace