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288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 14, 2025
“Meet Dexter Foreman, age 12, newest student at Wolf’s Eye Middle School—and also America’s youngest senior citizen. . . .”
"Dexter Foreman is a seventh grader like me, but when he was six, his parents took off on this international expat lifestyle, leaving Dex with his grandmother to grow up in her retirement village. I have a sudden flash of understanding about his clothes, which are so strange yet also strangely familiar. He dresses like my grandfather! Bits and pieces from once-snazzy outfits that are semiretired. High waists; big clunky shoes designed for sore feet. A sweater because you never know when there's going to be a draft. This kid is twelve going on eighty!"
"I can't really blame [Dexter]. The reason we grew apart is because I live in the real world and he lives in senior citizen la-la land. Like his clothes. A few years ago, it didn't bother me that he dressed like such a weirdo. But now the fact that he looks like a miniature version of my grandfather is something I can't ever unsee."