Leroy and the Old Man

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Summary: Leroy's Adventure
Review: I read the book Leroy and the Old Man. I think that this book was a great book and I rate it a 10 out of 10. I liked this book because it had great details and you always knew what was going on. I never had to stop and read a sentance again because I didn't get it. Or, another example is, that the book always stayed on one subject at a time. It never went from one problem to another or anything. A book I thought was especially similiar to Leroy and the Old Man, was a book called The Outsiders. I think that they are similiar because they both have to do with surviving problems that they have with other groups of people. If I had to rate this book, I would rate it a perfect 10. I would also rate it iwth 5 stars.

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Summary: In the Blink of an Eye
Review: In the Blink Of an Eye

In the blink of an eye everything can change. Leroy Chambers was just a regular 18 year-old guy working in a kitchen in downtown Chicago, when he gets off the elevator at the wrong time and witnesses a murder. The murderers were caught and they think he turned them in. Now he's hiding from them with his grand father. It's a great book and I liked how it showed what life was like in this area of Chicago with all the hatred and racism, where you have to sleep below the windows afraid of being shot and how it differs from the fun-loving life in Mississippi and New Orleans where your skin color doesn't matter and everyone is treated the same.

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Summary: Gardner Middle School - Lansing, MI
Review: In this book Leroy is a witness to a murder while he was getting off the elevator in the Hoover Housing Project. He decided to go and live with his grandpa. While he was with his grandfather, his grandfather taught him how to work as a fisherman and how to run the route. He also let him taste real New Orleans food. While he was there he met sheriff Greenhaw and had to go back to Chicago to be a witness. I would recommend this book because it was half way interesting. - Chris C.

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Summary: Witness and Killer
Review: Leroy and the Old man was an interesting book. While I was reading it, I began to get more and more into the story line. The book was about a boy named Leroy who had witnessed a murder and went to grandfather whom he didn't know. Thier relationship grew and they became like the family the never were.

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Summary: Review of leroy and the Old Man
Review: Leroy and the Old man was an interesting book. While I was reading it, I began to get more and more into the story line. The book was about a boy named Leroy who had witnessed a murder and went to grandfather whom he didn't know. Thier relationship grew and they became like the family the never were.

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Summary: Gardner Middle School,
Review: Leroy had an incident with his friends who were in the gang. The gang killed an old lady by the name of Mrs. Carson. The police went to Leroys job at the Cafeteria to ask questions. The gang later broke into his house and told him not to tell the police. Leroy's mom decided to send him to his grandfathers house. There his gandfather taught him how to fish, work the route, use a CB radio, and drive the truck. He also met officer Greenhaw. Officer Greenhaw was the police who helped Leroy solve his problems. While he was in New Orleans he met his dad for the first time in 8 or 9 years. He was upset with his dad and his dad made him and offer to come live with him. Leroy's dad lived in New York City with another woman and an apartment.Leroy's dad
knew he was in trouble and wanted to help. Leroy said no, to his father's offer. His grandfather took Leroy to the store and bought Leroy a suit for the trial. Leroy went back to Chicago as a material witness.

I would recommend this book because it tells others what to do if they are ever in a incident like this one. It also helps people deal with their dad or mom if they have not seen him in a long time. My favorite part of the book is when Leroy learned how to drive a car and use the CB radio. - Brian K.

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Summary: Leroy's Adventure
Review: Leroy is a teenager in the projects of Chicago. After he witnesses a gang-killing, his mother sends him to stay with his paternal grandfather, whom he has never met, in Mississippi.

His grandfather, "the Old Man", takes him in and the teaching begins. Never preachy, always authentic, comparable in most ways to Walter Dean Myers' work. I've taught this in Middle Grades and High School, but even upper level elementary students enjoy having it read to them.

This was Butterworth's final juvenile novel, before he found success under his pen-name, W. E. B. Griffin.

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Summary: Learning Values
Review: Leroy is a teenager in the projects of Chicago. After he witnesses a gang-killing, his mother sends him to stay with his paternal grandfather, whom he has never met, in Mississippi.

His grandfather, "the Old Man", takes him in and the teaching begins. Never preachy, always authentic, comparable in most ways to Walter Dean Myers' work. I've taught this in Middle Grades and High School, but even upper level elementary students enjoy having it read to them.

This was Butterworth's final juvenile novel, before he found success under his pen-name, W. E. B. Griffin.

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Summary: Witness and Killer
Review: What would you do when a murderer comes to your apartment and sees you see the murder that he just committed? Well, a17 year old boy was asking himself that very question when he came up the elevator and the doors opened. Shortly after Le Roy saw the murder he was sent to live with his grandpa. There he learned to be a fisherman, drive a car and work the fish delivery route his grandpa ran every day. After a while the police from Chicago had tracked down Le Roy. After that he was interrogated and called into the courts as a material witness.
I would not recommend this book because all it talks about was fishing and the murder. The story had a weak plot. The only people that I would recommend this book to is to someone that wants to fall asleep every time you start to read. It was very boring and I would not recommend it at all.