He even put rugs over all the oil and antifreeze splotches on the floor. He has been adopted by his mother’s sister (“we’ll call her Aunt Smiley”), sleeps in the garage (“Uncle Smiley cleaned the place out. Until the announcements at the end of the day. Before that I lived in Cornwall, New York, where life was definitely good.”) He is new at his middle school (where his new friends convince him to run for student council “That made me feel pretty good, actually. (“I only came to Long Beach this past summer. He cracks the customers up - good for diner business, good for Jamie’s self-confidence, and great for readers.īeyond the joke-telling, Jamie’s sense of humor pulls him through the hard times he’s facing. He’s got a million ‘em, and he’s always working on his delivery - practicing in school, with friends, and at the cash register of Uncle Frankie’s “Good Eats by the Sea” diner. (And, yes, he does see the humor in this, since he is in a wheelchair.) Still, he is determined, and he’s studied jokes from the best. Not just because Jamie Grimm is one of the most entertaining and likable characters you’ll ever meet in a book not just because he sees the humor in the world around him and points it out to us so we see it, too mostly because he’s a terrific kid, facing a lot of tough stuff, and he needs us rooting for him, even though he’d never ask! Jamie Grimm talks right to readers – his honesty and his humor making full impact on each of us - putting us firmly in his fan club.
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