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1. The book I read was Macaroni Boy 2. The author of Macaroni Boy is Katherine Ayres 3. The setting

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1. The book I read was Macaroni Boy
2. The author of Macaroni Boy is Katherine Ayres
3. The setting of Macaroni was during the Depression of 1933 in Pittsburgh, PA. This took place during the month of November in the strip district that is still known the strip district of Pittsburgh, PA but it definitely has different businesses than were there in the 1930’s. It seems like one month of time passes during this story.
4. The Protagonist – Mike Costa
Other characters:
Andy Simms – hinders the protagonist. He is Mike’s classmate and is a bully. He and Mike got into a few fights in school. Andy calls Mike Macaroni Boy and Rat Boy.
Joseph – helps the protagonist. He is Mike’s classmate and is his best friend. He and Mike team up to take on Andy …show more content…

Next, Grandpap started to get sick and vomit blood. Mike saw this and very scared that he was dying. Then, there was a big explosion at the Banana Warehouse. This causes everyone to be very suspicious of how it happened and wanted to blame the hobo’s that hung out at St Pat’s. Next, two hobo’s were found dead by the Banana Warehouse. This made Mike and Joseph really curious of how these two guys died. Mike and Joseph caught a rat and used it to try to find out how the hobos died at the banana warehouse. They made the rat drink river water, moonshine and eat catfish. They figured out that the catfish must have poisoned the hobos, and also made Grandpap and Andy sick. Mike traded macaroni and cheese for a piece of catfish from Andy. Mike and his pop are excited to help the police solve how the hobos died and to help Grandpap feel better.

6. I really liked this story because Mike reminded me of myself with trying to deal with the daily problems with kids in school. My family is really tight just like Mike’s family and I see or talk to my grandparents every day. My sister and I and all of my cousins help out with family chores and take pride in our hard work.
I really like the part of the book when the banana warehouse had the explosion because I wanted to find out who did it, why they did it and why was this important to the rest of the story?
At the beginning, the book made me sad because of the time of when this took place. It was very hard times for the people

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