The planet of Junior Brown
by Virginia Hamilton
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Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
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Fiction, African Americans, Friendship, Juvenile fiction, Homeless persons, History, Newbery Honor, Large type books, Friendship, fiction, African americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Adolescence, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Afro-Americans, AuthorsPeople
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Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade classroom all semester.
Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months...and then they are caught. As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior's fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend's well-being.
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