New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel for older children by this African American artist and educator. "Fourteen-year-old Willy, slow in school and ridiculed by other boys in his Brooklyn neighborhood, faces another dull smmer with his mother until tutoring from an older girl and other special experiences help him develop a sense of self-confidence." 132 pp. ISBN: 0-152006451.