The Truth As Told By Mason Butte

The Truth As Told By Mason Butte

Juvenile fiction
We're no strangers to Leslie Connor's books. Recall we read
Waiting For Normal and All Rise For The Honorable Perry T. Cook?
Connor is a genius in a subgenre that not enough writers take on. She
makes the kid peers might relentlessly pick on, shun, or simply ignore
into a complex, dignified, interesting protagonist.
She accomplishes this in spades in The Truth As Told By Mason
Butte. Mason is different from his peers. He thinks differently--big
picture as opposed to incrementally. He has a great deal of trouble
with reading. He's really big for his age with a medical condition
that causes him to swear excessively. Every day after school (except
Wednesdays when there's lacrosse practice) he's chased from a communal
bus stop to his home by athletes who throw things at him and hit him
with sticks.
Life hasn't dealt gently with Mason. Within a short time he'd
lost his grandfather and mother. His grieving family has turned in on
themselves. Then his best friend, Benny, died in a fall from his tree
house. That was over a year ago. But a police officer is still
questioning him sure that he is holding out on giving information that
will help the investigation. Does he believe that Mason is to blame?
But Mason has a new chum. A computer program at school is
helping him speak his words onto paper. Could something in his life
be going right?
Read the book and see.
On a personal note, I think my digital scales needs either battery
replacement or total replacement. The reading I got today was totally
off the wall. I think weighing 0.0 pounds is a biological
impossibility. I'm not in a hurry to replace it. Where my weight has
stayed remarkably consistent for over a month I can afford to get to
it whenever.
A great big shout out goes out to the best little cat in the world who
is sun soaking beside me.
jules hathaway


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