Call It Courage (Sperry)

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Description: Call It Courage (Sperry)

Genre: English literature: texts; Social Issues - Death and Dying; Courage; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Survival skills; Social Issues - Emotions and Feelings; Classics; Juvenile Fiction / General; Folklore; Polynesia; Survival;

Review: Courage is everything: I'm just a coward. Mafatu heard the words turn over and over again in his head. He knew they had the ring of truth. Ever since he almost drowned at sea he hasn't been anywhere near the salted water. He is the Boy Who Was Afraid. The book Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry is about a boy who longs to be just like every other hardworking man in the village- he wants to be a fisherman. How can he do that when he fears the ocean? He's useless to the village now, especially as the son of the chief, Tavana Nui. Finally the jeering of the other boys drives the Boy Who Was Afraid to his last option. He must face the ocean and its rhythmic, pulsing waves. Will Mafatu survive the evil that lurks in the undersea world? What will he discover? Will he ever go back to his homeland? Follow as Armstrong Sperry spins a classic tale of a boy just trying to reach the one place in himself called courage. The ocean is waiting....