Fashion Fighter
By Deborah O’Dowd
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Seven-year-old Kylie “Cheeks” Acosta is the youngest of three
girls, and there is another baby on the way. Cheeks gave herself
another nickname when, at four years old, she dressed up in as
many clothes as she could fit and announced she was “Fashion
Fighter”, a sort of clothing superhero. But Cheeks doesn’t want to
be called Fashion Fighter anymore; she has more important issues
on her mind.
A smart and curious second-grader, Cheeks meets her biological
father, whom she calls R-Daddy, for the first time. She discovers
that he lost his legs in the war in Iraq. When she hears about
soldiers and innocent children dying, Cheeks feels sad, frustrated,
and anxious to do something about it.
Rallying her fellow students, Cheeks starts a campaign to educate
people about the war. She discovers that not everyone agrees with
her, which helps Cheeks make sense of her own growing beliefs
about the world around her. But the war is only one of Cheeks’
concerns—she has to fight another battle of her own right close to
home. Readers will be rooting for Cheeks as she valiantly stands
up for what she knows in her heart to be right.
Deborah O’Dowd has taught for more than sixteen years. She
won the Arizona English Teachers’ Association Poetry Contest in 2006 and
is the author of Poetry Made Easy. O’Dowd was born in Tucson,
but currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and is the mother of three
boys. |
