My Brother's Hero

by Fogelin, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781561452743
• ISBN10: 1561452742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Peachtree Pub Ltd

Summary

Ben Floyd has a lot on his mind. In only eighteen months he will be old enough to get a learner's permit to drive, but that seems a lifetime away. Ben enjoys the close-knit group of friends in his small neighborhood, but lately he has been longing for a taste of adventure. Keeping an eye on his younger brother Cody is getting to be a big responsibility. And he is confused by complicated feelings he has for his lifelong friend, Cass.An unexpected turn of events finds the Floyd family in the Florida Keys over Christmas vacation and offers Ben a welcome opportunity to escape the neighborhood routine. Here he meets Mica, an independent, strong-willed girl who lives a nomadic life aboard a boat with her marine biologist father. Mica teaches Ben and Cody to fish, sail, and snorkel, and together they explore the interior canals and coastal waterways. But Ben soon realizes that adventure sometimes brings danger, and that at the center of Mica's seemingly charmed life lies a mysterious loneliness.Young readers will relate to Ben's conflicting feelings and growing restlessness as they experience this realistic, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous portrait of adolescence by award-winning author Adrian Fogelin.

Author Biography

Adrian Fogelin is the award-winning author of the novels Crossing Jordan and Anna Casey's Place in the World. She lived in the Florida Keys for fifteen years -- six of them aboard a leaky cruiser called the Ever So Discreet. Docked at a marina very much like the one in My Brother's Hero, the author, her husband, and their young daughter fished off the bow of their floating home, snorkeled under it, and awoke one Christmas morning to discover that the ship was going down. With the help of marina neighbors the Ever So was saved, and a merry Christmas was had by all. Now a resident of Tallahassee, Florida, Fogelin has not forgotten the salty, sunny years lived at the water's edge

Table of Contents

Pecans for Cash	1	(7)
Asteroids and Aliens	8	(6)
Customizing Mr. Frosty	14	(4)
The Dumbest Words Ever Spoken	18	(5)
Mr. Frosty Heads South	23	(5)
Welcome to Bert's Marina	28	(8)
Mica	36	(8)
Island Collecting	44	(6)
Slip-In-Easy	50	(10)
The Secret Tunnel	60	(10)
A One-Way Trip to the Bottom	70	(7)
Tools or Treasure?	77	(6)
Deck the Boat	83	(8)
Snorkeling with Jacques	91	(6)
The True Sea	97	(8)
That Cass Person	105	(5)
Cass's Gift	110	(9)
The Battle Scar	119	(7)
The Bottom of the Food Chain	126	(6)
A Ride with Mr. Trouble	132	(9)
Chicken Fighters	141	(6)
The Human Lightbulb	147	(8)
Key Weird	155	(7)
The Last Sunset	162	(13)
Adrift	175	(7)
If We Never Get Rescued	182	(6)
If We Ride!	188	(5)
Cass	193