The Saturday boy

This book is about a boy who’s name is Derek. He is eleven years old and has a friend named Budgie . Budgie is kind of selfish and the reason is that his parents buy him whatever he says.

Derek is a quiet and a cool boy. It seems like he has his own world and he lives there alone with the letters that his father sends from Afghanistan. His father is soldier and Derek’s family don’t know if he is dead or alive. But the letters that he sends to Derek were written before. He says that the letters that his father sent are the only thing he reads more than once,because he knows which one to read when he is sad or when he forgets mom’s birthday. And each letter says what he needs to hear. But the only letter which he is waiting most to read is that dad is coming home. And lets see if he is going to get that letter or no.

So one morning Derek got up at seven forty five and started getting ready for school. He thought he is late for school and wanted to wake his mom up. But then he decided not to annoy her so he took his school bag and ran to the bus stop. It was raining and was running so fast. But when he got to the bus stop there was nobody there. So he thought it isn’t that late. He was thinking of the letter that he was reading the night before. Then he saw Budgie’s mom’s car and after a while Budgie in the car. When the car was near he heard Budgie laughing.  Then Budgie’s mom asked him “What are you doing here Derek?” “waiting for the bus” “which bus ?” she asked .”school bus!”said Derek. “Derek?” she said ,”yes?”.”It’s Saturday !”. This is the conversation which I liked most in the book.

One day when he came back from school there was a box in his room. When he opened it ,there was a helicopter in it. Afterwards Aunt Josie said that it is sent by his father. And he used to play with it all the time and get sad ,because it reminds him to his dad . And one day his mom took it when he was at school and he fought with his mom for that and she was upset. She just wanted him to be happy and don’t get sad every time when he sees the helicopter.

Before Christmas they had a play in school where he and Budgie fought. He couldn’t sleep that night and felt bad about that.

It’s Christmas time. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas . Derek is writing letters to his father and getting letters from dad. Everyone thought that he is alive till the time when aunt Josie turned on the TV and heard that his father is dead.  First they didn’t tell Derek about that ,but he heard it from Violet. She is his classmate and they are in the school play together. But it feels like he knew or he felt that his father was dead. But the thing is that he is getting letters from his father again.

The next day Budgie and his mother visited them and they talked about what happened a couple of weeks ago. Then Derek and Budgie went to the room and talked alone. After a while Derek asked him-“are we best friends again?” “not best friends but we are friends I think” –said Budgie.

Before New year Derek and aunt Josie went for shopping . Derek was hungry and went to buy some doughnut. He saw Violet there and talked to her for a while. Then Violet hugged him and said good-bye. Derek was thinking about Violets hug for hours and was remembering the smell of her hair.

Apples.

Her hair smelled like apples.

Tomorrow must be Saturday.

This is the end of the story about “The Saturday boy”. It was really interesting to read this book and most of it is about the feelings that he felt after something happened to him. And about  the world where he was living.