The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring

By Lucille Clifton, Brinton Turkle (illustrator),

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Book description

In the middle of the city, two young friends set out to find Spring. Their search ends in a most unlikely but utterly convincing discovery.

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1 author picked The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

King Shabazz doesn’t believe in this spring that everybody is talking about, but he and his friend Tony Polita and set out through the city in search of it, finding spring in green growing sprouts with pointy yellow flowers in a vacant lot and a nest of eggs birds have made in an abandoned car. 

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