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JOHN-BROWNE'S
BODY & SOLE:
A Semester of Life

ISBN 1-58820-677-7
5.5 X 8.5 in., 179pp.
Original Softcover Edition
Perfectbound: $9.95
Flesch Reading Ease: 80.4
Flesch-Kincaid Level: 6.4
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Jack Ordway, an “A-R-M-A,” (American of Really Mixed Ancestry) has a variety of school adventures, encounters race prejudice, performs a piano recital, and is supported by family, teachers, friends, and the harmony-promoting martial art philosophy of aikido as he participates in the unfolding of a family tragedy.

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Here is part of a scene from the book. Jack is at school, recovering in the principal's office from being smacked by a much bigger guy:

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I'll tell you something I have discovered. You know how on TV these guys get socked in the mouth real hard and they sort of look annoyed, but they never bleed and later they never puff up or say "Ow, it hurts!" or anything? I mean, they hardly ever even fall down. Let me give you a clue here. In real life when you get socked on the side of the mouth, you feel it. I mean like if you are hit by somebody as big as Dan Grady, you fall down. And then pretty soon you bleed and then you swell up and it hurts. And then you say "Ow!" all right. I am having less and less faith in the media, as my grandpa says.
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