**Highly recommend.
Through a powerful story about two thirteen year old boys in the early 1900's, Mr. Curtis reveals how one's past and its hurts can either destroy one's life or transform one into a more compassionate person.
Mr. Curtis shares the prejudice of an Irish woman and her tragic past; an African American man suffering from post traumatic disorder; two boys entering manhood trying to make sense of the adult world.
Characters are very well developed. Humor is intertwined with the serious issues.
Strategies: check for understanding/monitor reading (Red and Benji take turns telling the story-alternating chapters), synthesizing, inferring, main idea
A companion book to Elijah of Buxton (but you can read Madman without reading this one and understand it fine.).
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