Beat Box Magic
The tone of these opening chapters are light, breezy and almost effortless. The titular Kenan isn’t interested in going to a school, even a special one called Peerless. Life is already teaching him everything he knows.
Kenan is clearly still a child, thinking of a hurricane that occurred a decade previous as being “forever ago”. He doesn’t share his parents’s enthusiasm for a school that might challenge him or introduce him to children his own age. Learning his BFF is going doesn’t change his mind.
Perhaps there is reason to be worried. He suspects there’s some skullduggery going on, especially since a strange magical flicker from an entry letter seems to change his parents’s minds almost immediately. However, it’s too soon from these early chapters to get a bead on what this school is or what it truly has to offer.
The novel uses contemporary slang that might date this book in a few years but nothing too outré or exaggerated. But we get a fair insight into the mind of an eager poet-manqué, his lively neighborhood and his concerned, caring parental units.
Kenan is clearly still a child, thinking of a hurricane that occurred a decade previous as being “forever ago”. He doesn’t share his parents’s enthusiasm for a school that might challenge him or introduce him to children his own age. Learning his BFF is going doesn’t change his mind.
Perhaps there is reason to be worried. He suspects there’s some skullduggery going on, especially since a strange magical flicker from an entry letter seems to change his parents’s minds almost immediately. However, it’s too soon from these early chapters to get a bead on what this school is or what it truly has to offer.
The novel uses contemporary slang that might date this book in a few years but nothing too outré or exaggerated. But we get a fair insight into the mind of an eager poet-manqué, his lively neighborhood and his concerned, caring parental units.