![]() When he notices that nine of the pages with plates of birds have been cut out with a razor blade, he resolves to track them down. But he brings all of his beat-upedness with him."Įventually, Doug finds his way to the local library, where he discovers a beautiful edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America. "And he comes to a new town, trying to find a new way to start. Schmidt explains to NPR's Michele Norris. "He has a beat-up situation, a beat-up family, a beat-up house," author Gary D. So it's easy to understand why Doug, the protagonist of our latest book for NPR's Backseat Book Club, Okay for Now, is anything but a happy-go-lucky kid. He has just moved to a new town, where he doesn't have any friends, and where his teachers - and the police - think of him as nothing more than a "skinny thug." How?įourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Okay for Now Author Gary D. ![]()
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