Summary: A Summers Reading is about a young man; George Stoyonovich, feels like people do not respect him in his neighborhood because he does not have a job and has not finished school. George feels like school was a waste of time because it did not teach about important aspects of life. Then George runs into a man that he respects, George exaggerates the reading he has done and soon people find out. George begins to feel respected in the neighborhood after people find out he reads.
Some background:
* In a typical immigrant neighborhood in New York City, everyone tries to
succeed.
* The key word is proper education, while moving through a dynamic process
of growing up and taking responsibility .
* Reading books in the summer is what George would like to do... But, will
he?