First Boy

First Boy

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name = First Boy
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author = Gary Schmidt
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Henry Holt
pub_date = 2005
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 197 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0-8050-7859-6
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"First Boy" is a novel published in 2005 by Gary Schmidt. It is a Mark Twain Award nominee for the 2007-2008 year.

Plot summary

Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.


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