Young Curtis struggles daily to be the best boxer he can be, while trying to make his grandfather proud of him by proving to him that he can keep cool and come back for more, even after a defeat." This description may be from another edition of this product.
Staying Cool is a wonderfully readable book with a gentle moral: that how you work for your dreams is as important as achieving them. The warm relationship between a boy and his grandfather, in the unusual setting of a corner gymnasium, is filled with detail and realistic language that make us feel we really know these characters-and like them very much
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