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The adventures and misadventures of Buster, a highly imaginative Danish schoolboy, come to a climax when he must take over the lead role in the school play on the night of the performance.
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Language Notes
Text: English
Original Language: Danish
From Kirkus Reviews
A second bittersweet story about the hero of Buster's World (1990 Batcheldor Award)--with the vulnerable but resilient Danish boy now yearning to play the lead in a school play. Telling scenes reveal that Buster's life isn't easy: he must fetch his father home from a bar; he shares a bed with his sister; he's treated callously by teachers, the play's director, and a school custodian--only one of the blindly angry people he contends with. Creative and sensitive as well as exasperating, Buster counters with mischief--not all of it innocent: he tricks the privileged boy chosen to play the sheikh into letting him paint his face green--but he's also the sympathetic confidant of a neighbor, a recent widower, and, for all its faults, his family is a loving one. Like his character, his age is a surreal blend of playfulness and adult experience--though he does decimals in math, Buster's constant companion is ``Charlie Mane,'' a broomstick horse. In the book's most poignant moment, just after a teacher has called him a ``zero...[a] nothing,'' Buster's told by the custodian that Charlie Mane has been burned: he was infested with lice. The weeping Buster still has courage and a sense of his own value: running free, he shouts, ``I'm Buster...I'm not nothing.'' A moving story that captures childhood's essence in a rare blend of unblinking realistic detail, pathos, and rollicking, roguish humor. In Bell's excellent translation, the style is wonderfully vigorous and colorful. (Fiction. 9+) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherDutton Juvenile
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0525447725
- ISBN 13 9780525447726
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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