Planet of Junior Brown

Description:

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.

subjects: 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,  Authors

People: Junior Brown,  Buddy Clark,  Mr. Pool

Places: New York (N.Y.)

Times: 20th century