· The main chracter, Sprout, is revealed to us initialy through a what seems like random trails of thoughts, it is only much later in the book that the emotions that lie behind these thoughts are revealed. Dale Pecks writing style is not a hard sell, this is not a page turner type book and yet you do want to find out where the story is going/5(95). · Sprout by Dale Peck. When I first bought this book, intending to read it on my eight-hour flight home the next day, I made the mistake of glancing at the first chapter before putting it in my bag. Dale Peck (born on Long Island, New York) is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category/5.
Sprout by Dale Peck and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru by Dale Peck. Sometimes, regardless of plot or characters or even how the book ends, a particular voice in a book (or of a book) totally and completely wins you over. Sprout is one of those voices: observant, witty, sarcastic; yet full of heart, longing, and desire. He completely won me over, in spite of the meandering plot and Kansas. Sprout knows, too, but how he arrives at the understanding of his self-evident secret is what drives Dale Peck's Sprout, a poignant novel about coming out and coming of age. Published by the.
Sprout is a young adult gay novel by American author Dale Peck first published in May The novel depicts an openly gay teenage boy who moves to Kansas after his mother dies from cancer. While he struggles with harassment at school and two potential boyfriends, he has to decide if he will hide his sexual orientation in order to win a statewide essay-writing contest. Book Overview. When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, it proves impossible to hold. An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he's gay, and the town that seems to have no place for him to hide. Sprout is gay. But he is a human being and therefore needs to be loved and deserves a chance to grow to take his place in the world like everyone else. His hair becomes a reminder to people to be tolerant and accepting of all those who are "different".But this story of Sprout is much, much more than that.
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