A Contemporary Summery on Pool Boy By Michael Simmons Report By: Seth Love Grade: 7th Teacher: Language Arts Teacher Unknown Date: Sunday August 3, 2003 Time: 9:49 For RRJ (Reading Response Journal) The book Pool Boy is about a seventeen year old who has to deal with life when his family loses all of is money. The reason he loses all of his money is because his father was an inside traitor and got caught by the police. …showed first 75 words of 494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 494 total…funereal Brett gave a speech about their relationship and how Alfie and a lot of pickled fruit and vegetables, and how every lunch Alfie would bring something exotic like bean sprouts. After the funeral Brett realized that Alfie helped him see that he might have hated the stunts his father pulled not him. Brett also saw that his father was trying to protect him from being exposed to the fact that he was a criminal.