Sweet Tea & Snap Peas - by McCaid Paul (Paperback)

About the Book

Eleven-year-old Clint Boone lives with his pea-shelling, sweet tea-drinking grandparents. After they take in a hyperactive seven-year-old named Rhett, Clint struggles to come of age in the shadow of his unexpected new sibling.

Book Synopsis

Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Sean Dietrich, and Fannie Flagg, Sweet Tea & Snap Peas is a nostalgic, heartwarming family story full of southern wit and charm.

Sixth-grader Clint Boone knows that change is inevitable, but that doesn't mean he has to like it. Ever since he lost his parents in a car crash five years ago, he worries about everything. At the top of his list of worries: his first day of middle school at a new school-meaning the likelihood of eating alone, being teased about his southern accent, or getting his head dunked down a toilet just increased. Clint's only constants are his sweet tea-drinking, pea-shelling grandparents, who are always there when he needs them.

However, only a day into an already troubling school year, Clint's grandparents soon welcome seven-year-old Rhett, a distant relative, into their home. Now Clint has a rambunctious new sibling that he never asked for-one who shakes up his relationship with Grandma and Grandpa, and requires much more of their attention than he likes. As he struggles to adjust to Rhett, a new school, and a sixth-grade bully, Clint begins to learn that life's curveballs may not be such a bad thing...until the curveball that upends Clint's entire world.