First Boy

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First Boy
Author Gary Schmidt
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Henry Holt
Publication date 2005
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 197 pp
ISBN ISBN 978-0-8050-7859-6

First Boy is a novel published in 2005 by Gary Schmidt. It is a Mark Twain Award nominee for the 2007-2008 year.

[edit] Plot summary

Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is.