Braces

By Donald Davis

Book Overview

Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of uncertainty that getting braces throws one into. Also includes another Davis favorite, Everybody Goes to the Beach.

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874837723
• ISBN13: 9780874837728
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Anyone who has had braces will find this hilarious

Donald Davis--whose humor is in the best tradition of American humorists--is at his funniest in this story. The experience of getting braces is wrapped within a larger story of first freedoms...being trusted by his parents to travel to the orthodontist on his own, finding out about a city larger than his hometown, etc. For family-audience humor, this is a sure winner. A great gift for a teen (ages 11 and up, really) who is just experiencing braces for the first time.