Irving and Me

It all started that day I met Irving Winkelman at the beach. My parents had decided to move to Florida, and there I was, a displaced Brooklynite trying to adjust to a new life under waving palm trees. I missed my old dog, Pete, and all my old pals. But it wasn't long before Irving, that skinny kid with the big ears, had me in more hot water than I'd ever been in before — meeting a dream girl with long yellow hair, becoming the life of the party, getting roughed up in defense of a few good principles, and trying to like salami-eating Mr. Gooden, the youth director of the Community Center...

IRVING AND ME, Syd Hoff's frst novel, is an account of the adventures and mishaps that thirteen-year-old Artie Granick has when he seeks companionship and excitement in his new home town. How Artie learns to value his own abilities and succeeds in finding true friendship is told with ebullient good humor and with insight into the diffhculties a boy faces in a rapidly changing world.