My Most Excellent Year
A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger
Augie and T.C. have been brothers--best friends really--since they were in first grade when T.C.'s mother died. Now they're in high school and, for a school assignment, writing about their freshman year in a series of letters supplemented with letters by Ale and a few others. And what a year it was--their lives would never be the same after meeting Hucky, a deaf boy who just needs a friend and, in T.C., Augie and Ale, he gets that and more. In the course of just a year, the three freshmen discover romance, learn sign language and meet Julie Andrews. Touching, funny, and incredibly original--I loved this book and didn't want it to end. On sale March 18, 2008.