A review by sarahbowman101
Sprout by Dale Peck

3.0

13 year old Sprout and his dad move from Long Island to Kansas after Sprout's mother dies. His dad becomes an alcoholic who collects tree stumps and displays them outside their vine covered trailer. Sprout has to learn to navigate the waters of school life in Hutchinson, made more challenging because Sprout is gay. I picked up this title recently because it won the Lambda Award for best LGBT title for young adults. Generally, I enjoyed this book but it is almost too clever for its own good. The writing is filled with interjections -interjections! - and cute little side notes (sometimes interesting sometimes pointless). Appropriate for older teens and even 20 somethings who remember the misfit struggles in high school.