Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: heroes and heroines, fiction, neighbors, family life, maryland, school stories, skateboarding, maryland, fiction