Those Shoes

by Maribeth Boelts

Book Description

A moving text about wants and needs. Jeremy, a young Black boy in a diverse school, dreams about getting a pair of black sneakers with two stripes like his classmates wear, but when his grandmother, who has been saving up, sees the price, "she sits down heavy." Jeremy tries wearing the too-small pair they find at a resale shop, and spends a few days with his "too big feet shuffling around in my too-small shoes," wistfully saying, "sometimes shoes stretch." Eventually, though, he finds a better owner for these shoes--Antonio, whose shoes are taped up and who is the only boy who didn't laugh at the shoes Jeremy had to borrow from the principal. A refreshing story told by the kid who gets old things from the principal's office, instead of about him.

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