![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On those rare occasions when Leo finds that he has the house to himself he puts on the tap-dancing shoes and relives his father’s own early days. Leo begins to explore his father’s life through reading the old blue journal. Giorgio is the name of Leo’s father, but Leo can’t believe that his father was ever happy enough to tap dance, and his father’s old journal is full of grand hopes and dreams that Leo can’t believe that his father ever aspired to. In a dusty box tucked away amidst the junk Leo finds a small blue book entitled “The Autobiography of Giorgio, Age of Thirteen.” Beneath the journal Leo finds a pair of scuffed up tap-dancing shoes. Leo is a dreamer, but the rest of his family doesn’t seem to appreciate this, and Leo doubts that they ever did or will.īut one day Leo goes up into the attic to escape the noise and confusion of his family. Leo feels that his family tends to forget him in the midst of their own boisterous dynamics, relationships, and projects. In his mind he is famous, big, or strong, but in real life his family calls him Sardine or Fog Boy. “Replay,” by Sharon Creech is a book about a small, dreamy boy in a large, outspoken family. ![]()
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