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The book Golden Boy was a great book. I read this book and did my reading project on it. I recommend this book to my classmates, especially if you like suspense in your book. I liked this book because it was like a personal narrative about Habo's time traveling. Golden Boy caught my attention with all the suspense and foreshadowing in the book. It involved a lot of mysterious parts, like when his killer found him. I also liked the book because it wasn't as boring as I thought it would be. "Don't judge a book by it's cover" applies very much to this situation, I looked at the cover and thought it was boring. The first few chapters were pretty boring but towards the middle is where all the action happens. It's like that plot thing we did in Ms.Petrella's class last year. The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution is how the story was. That's why I recommend this book because some people like stories like that. These are a f...

The book I am reading now is called Golden Boy. This is the second book I've read so far, I have read a book called Until We Meet Again  and my current book. This is an interesting novel, it started off really boring and then Friday I was reading it and it got really good. I'm not going to spoil the book but I will share a little about what I have read so far. The main character is Habo, he is 13 years old and he has three older siblings. They live with their mother in Arusha. They have a farm and Habo keeps track of the sheep. Their mother was struggling and they had to leave their home so they traveled to Mwanza where their mother's sister lives. Habo was the "black sheep" of the family, Habo was different. He had white skin, yellow hair and light colored eyes. That's why his sister Asu called him "golden boy". His brothers barely talked to him and his mother rarely looked at him because he was different. In Mwanza they called people like Habo albi...