![]() Ruby often ' will rattle his brains' with insightful comments. ![]() He's not thrilled but fortunately has the support of his best friend Ruby (who plays the donkey). Leo tries out for the school play, ' Rumpopo's Porch' (a script is included in the back of the book), and wins the small part of ' an old crone'. When he asks about her at a family dinner, everyone is upset with him. In the journal, Papa mentions his youngest sister Rosaria, but Leo doesn't have an aunt Rosaria. Papa, who had a heart attack a few years ago, does not seem as happy now as he did then and Leo wonders about it. Watching.' One day he finds a journal his father Giorgio wrote as a tap-dancing thirteen-year-old. He feels, ' I was always in the middle or on the edge. Leo is the introspective middle child in a lively Italian family. ![]() Did you ever dream of starring in heroic real-life episodes? Then you'll empathize with Leonardo, a dreamer called sardine by his family and fog boy by some teachers (though his drama teacher did say ' it was not a bad thing to be a dreamer.') Leo replays scenarios in his head constantly (and shares them with readers), though reality always intrudes. ![]()
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