A Boy Named Queen
–Heather Camlot
Sara Cassidy
Groundwood Books, Ages 8-11
TEN-YEAR-OLD Evelyn’s life has always had a sameness about it: she lives in a brown, two-bedroom house among a row of brown, two-bedroom houses; her mother buys her stiff leather loafers at Frederick’s Footwear once a year; she snacks on milk and oatcakes every day after school. But change is afoot – Frederick’s is now Budget Shoes, Evelyn is allowed blue canvas “near-runners,” and a new boy in school wears shiny shorts and goes by the name Queen.