He has learned to speak with less fear among his learning-disabled classmates, who are fascinated by the intense, artistic boy from the ghetto.
A shy, artistic boy with a new mustache, Jermaine is one of tens of thousands of youngsters who lost not just all of their belongings to Hurricane Katrina, but a chunk of childhood itself.
It is perhaps no surprise that a frail artistic boy should feel a stranger in a coal-mining village, or that his working-class origins should in turn mark him off from wellborn Londoners "tampering," as Lawrence wrote, "with the arts, literature, painting, sculpture, music".
He had six plays on Broadway between 1953 and 1971, beginning with "Tea and Sympathy," the story of a sensitive, artistic boy who is ostracized by his prep school classmates as a supposed homosexual but who is befriended — and ultimately sexually initiated — by the housemaster's wife.
Nat, nine, is a more artistic, graceful boy who dances across the room like Billy Elliot and he's less like me.
Her best-loved characters, rendered with compassion and nuance, include a defiant foster child ("The Great Gilly Hopkins"), a brooding and jealous teenage twin ("Jacob Have I Loved"), and a poor, artistic country boy who develops a unique friendship with a tomboyish girl from out of town ("Bridge to Terabithia").
His new autobiographical fantasy, The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley, is about an artistic teenage boy with a girl's name, who's stuck in suburbia, feeling like a weirdo until Wound Man – a superhero whose special power is empathy – moves in down the street.
The child they named Edward Franklin Albee III always felt that his adoptive parents were inadequate guardians for an artistic, intellectual boy who claimed to have known that he was homosexual from the age of eight, but they did give him a theatrical inheritance.
As an artistic gay boy in a straight provincial world, he nourished his dreams of glamour at the local cinema, made a corset for his teddy bear, and learned about women's secrets from his flamboyant grandmother, who encouraged his vocation.
This charming, churning, championing true story follows PK, an artistic young boy from India's lowest caste with very limited means, as he strives for new horizons, opportunities, achievements.
His book "Yossel, April 19, 1943" imagines an artistic Jewish boy surviving for a while in the Warsaw ghetto by drawing cartoons of superheroes for Nazi soldiers.
