![]() ![]() He's desperate to figure out what happened to Calvin and, eventually, Benny. ![]() When Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble again. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard.Īn investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day.īoth Mason and his new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky, are relentlessly bullied by the other boys in their neighborhood, so they create an underground haven for themselves. ![]() Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Mason accidentally spelled Stoopid, and the class roared with. He tells the story of the classroom spelling bee, in which he misspelled the word stopped. Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. At the beginning of the novel, 12-year-old Mason Buttle finds a white tee shirt in his locker with STOOPID written on the front. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope. From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. ![]()
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