Following in the response he started to make other young adult novel. Like the Sorta Like a Rock Star (2010), Boy21 (2012), Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (2013) and Every Exquisite Thing (2016). His books have been translated in thirty languages. He received PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and many more. He also one of the 25 Most Powerful Author and his book was optioned to be film (Matthew Quick). Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock is only one of those young adult fiction of …show more content…
Walt and Leonard have an amazing friendship despite of the big age gap between them. The kind of friendship no one can believe that is possible to be friend with old man and a teenager who gets along well. They first meet when Leonard is shoveling the ice which Linda told him to do so and shovel in front of the house of Walt too. He heard a noise from the house and a gunshot and he call a police because he was shock. It was mistake to call the police the sound he heard is just from the movie. It was then he often comes to Walt’s house to watch a Bogart movie. So the present he gave to Walt is related to the Bogart movie it was a hat. Walt sense something when they look to each other eyes and he ask Leonard but he just bid a goodbye without looking back at Walt. He wants Walt’s to know it his birthday and be greeted maybe it will change his mind about doing it .The next present is for Baback he is an Iranian who he meet in freshman year. He meets him at the orientation day of freshman in sophomore year they have the same gym class. Asher bullied Baback back then and Leonard threatens Asher that he will tell his secret. He know all the secret of Asher Beal as they are ones bestfriend. After that he started to listen to Baback playing the violin in the auditorium. He pays him while listening to it and what he pays goes to the True Democracy of Iran. He listen to the violin music as it