Mom slaps a wooden spoon on the counter.Thwack! “Might as well cart me away to the asylumright now.” Nunzio, little Nunzio, echoes his mother.“Thupido, thupido!” “I was just-”“What are you doing? Where did you get those “What is going on up there? Stop that noise!Stop it, you hear me?” Papa bolts up the stairs.“Sounds like stampeding buffalo!” Leo taps like mad, spins, leaps over a chair. The microphonepicks up the host’s voice: “Have you ever seen any-thing like it? Have you ever seen so much talent insuch a young performer?” The studio audience has risen to its feet,and they are applauding wildly. Leo is on national television, tapping up astorm. He slidesacross the floor, whirl, tappety, tap, kick. On the bare wooden floor in the dusty attic,Leo taps. Near the bottom,wrapped in tissue paper, he discovers a pair of tapshoes, scuffed, wrinkled, and cracked on the sides. Leo closes the book, slips it intohis pocket, rummages in the box, pushing aside year-books and photographs and letters. Not an easy thing to imagine, as Papa does not seemvery happy lately. Replay_PBtxt_des1 6/5/07 4:40 PM Page viii Includes the text for the play “Rumpopo’s Porch.” Summary: While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCreech, Sharon.
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