This is the story of seventeen-year-old Leroy Walker's first day at school. He starts off without making any friends, meaning he spends the day by himself. He gradually makes new friends, and learns how to grow as a person in this coming-of course novel. This film will either inspire or make you laugh. Either way, it's one to watch! Once upon a time there was an English student named Leroy Walker who never felt that he fit into any one particular crowd due to his reclusive personality. On his 7th grade first day at school, he befriends some other students; including Desmond Reese and TK Fields; two boys his age with similar backgrounds as him. Later on the other students including Skateboarders, Wannabes, and Hipsters; he befriends. As time progress Leroy starts to feel like he's not good enough for anyone. He then begins to withdraw into himself. After he gets two new close friends; Dion Henry and Mallory Carter; they quick become his best friends ever. But the same could not be said about his other classmates who don't view him as their friend at all due to his introvert personality (even if they secretly do like him). Leroy becomes even more isolated, causing him to stop talking with anyone that does not have something in common with him or are just making fun of him. Leroy then starts to feel better about himself, when his older cousin named Marquise comes to visit him for a while. After a while though he begins to not have fun with all the same things. He goes to a party at Dion's house where he meets a girl named Jessica Williams, who gives Leroy a book written by the great poet Langston Hughes. Leroy later on reads it and understands what Langston meant when he said; "don't knock your knees together because God put them there." This shows that even if you think you're not perfect; you can be anything if you work hard enough. Leroy then tells Marquise about these things that he's been learning, and Marquise is even more impressed with what he has learned now. Leroy now knows that he can do anything if he really wants to. Later on Leroy realizes that the only time he feels good is when he hangs out with his friends. Now not only would they make fun of him but they would also love to hang out with him just as much as him. He begins to believe that if others do not like him than it is their problem and not his own, which causes him to stop caring about what anyone around him thinks. From then on Leroy becomes more open to meeting new people and making new friends. One day while at band practice, Jacci Dawson; the band director; explains to Leroy that his father died in Iraq. This causes him not to want to play music anymore, but at the same time it gives him the motivation to live. He finally realizes what his father did for him and why he did it. Leroy then gets "back into the game" after realizing that his father did all that he did, so he could live a better life than he had growing up in Chicago with drug addicts and alcoholics around him 24/7. 8eeb4e9f32 22
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