Kirkus Award Finalistu003cbru003e Schneider Family Book Award Winneru003cbru003e Coretta Scott King Author Honor Booku003cbru003e u003cbru003eWhen two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfiresliterallyin this pitch-perfect contemporary novel (u003ciu003eKirkus Reviewsu003c/iu003e, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eGenies summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginiain the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).u003cbru003e u003cbru003eHow does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy hes ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the houseas in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing intoa room so full of songbirds and plants that its almost as if its been pulled inside-outhe begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eThen Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. Its his fourteenth birthday, and, Grandpop says to become a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. None. Nada. Dumbfounded by Ernies reluctance, Genie is left to wonderis bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you wont do?