Brave Like That
By Lindsey Stoddard
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. 261 p.
Cyrus is an eleven-year-old with a firefighter dad. In fact, Cyrus was left at the firehouse when he was a baby and his dad decided he wanted to keep him. All of the firefighters and Cy’s two friends all want Cyrus to be a star middle school football player like his dad. But Cy doesn’t really think he is “brave like that”—brave enough to be hit in rough tackles or to say what he really wants. In fact, Cy cares more about the stray dog that is at the humane society or listening to jazz music with his grandma or being kind to a new kid at his middle school than he does about football or looking like the “right” type of kid in front of others. This is a brilliant look at what makes a person (or a kid) brave. Readers will cheer as Cy learns to figure out who he is, how he can explain that to those around him, and how he can deal with the underline struggles and problems that he is facing.
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