Another way is to just sort of put up with it and run away. One of the options is that you stand up and face it, but that means you become kind of like the people who are making your life hell. I wanted to somehow draw together the taunting and the rain the point of it being that if you’re in that situation where you’re being bullied, which ties into the larger dilemma that Moo faces with the police and the gangster, you haven’t got too many options, really. I think it’s one of those things that just pops into my head, actually. How did you come up with that expression? Is it from your own life? “Kissing the Rain” is Moo’s expression for embracing the insulting remarks about his obesity that rain down on him from his classmates. You introduce the reader to your protagonist and narrator, Mike Nelson, nicknamed Moo by his classmates, in reference to his weight problem. Kevin shared his own story and his views on the writing craft face to face at the 2003 ALAN Workshop in San Francisco. His rapid-fire delivery of myriad details and lovable/hate-able anti-hero protagonists speak to teenagers and “the teenager inside us all,” as Kevin describes the place he goes to find that special voice, the voice of “Moo” Nelson, for example, the overweight hero of (Chicken House/Scholastic 2003) and was an instant favorite with young people. Kevin Brooks burst upon the young adult literature scene with
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