Real Street Kidz: Good Ideas (multicultural book series for preteens 7-to-12-years old)

By Quentin Holmes

•A Multicultural Children’s Books by Quentin Holmes
•Easy-to-read, empowering and entertaining stories preteens (7-to-12 years old)
•Available in softcover, & eBook

Q, Jazz, Chase, Ginger, Los, Kawena, and Lucky, are the adventure seeking Real Street Kidz.  An ex

• Language: English
• Publisher: Holmes Investments & Holdings LLC
• Release date: Sep 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9780996210256

Quentin Holmes

Author, entrepreneur, and brand creator, Quentin "Q" Holmes has dedicated his life to empowering the world's youth through trendsetting literature, media, and fashion. The son of a hard-working father whose career advancement moved the family to nearly every region of the country, Quentin gained exposure to people from all walks of life. Quentin earned his bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Michigan, further enriching his perspective on social diversity. The Real Street Kidz book series, created in 2009, promotes positive life messages to modern day preteens. Multiculturalism, along with heightening positive individual differences for success, is a theme across the books in this exceptional series. This type of awareness builds patterns of success for kids everywhere. Through reading Chasing Action and Art of Authenticity, Quentin hopes that kids will begin to think "outside the box"and realize that teamwork and individuality is the greatest formula for success.

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Real Street Kidz

Good Ideas

Quentin Holmes

© 2015 Holmes, Investments and Holdings, LLC

All Rights Reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the author.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this book are purely fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coinci- dental.

Printed in the United States of America

Real Street Kidz (RSK) definitions-

Infusion: Adding in something great (like your ideas)

Good Ideas: Things that you think of and do that add to the good of everybody

Contribute: Sharing your talents with the world (giving back to our neighborhoods)

According to: In the words of…(it’s who’s talking)

Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 1

Remember Your Friends

(According to Q)

THE GREATNESS of our summer is sadly coming to a hasty and painful end. Looking up into the sky I can see that the yellow-orange colored sun is now more than halfway towards setting. But the fresh warm summer air still feels good on our skin. I close my eyes, lean back on my elbows, and take a deep breath, trying to hold onto every last bit of its goodness before the season changes.

I’m dreading the fall like I dread using my full name Quincy Washington, III. Instead, I prefer for people to call me Q, mostly because the name Quincy Washington the Third makes me sound like an old man with a boring job like an accountant. Maybe things will change and I’ll like my name better when I’m older, but for now it’s just a couple of months away from my thirteenth birthday and there is no way that name is going to be used by me anytime soon!

I open my eyes to the familiar sight of my new friends. We’ve grown pretty close and have spent everyday of the summer together. This particular afternoon is a lot like most others; we are sitting and relaxing inside the gated parking lot of the Real Street Neighborhood Center, or RSNC for short. Real Street is the actual name of the street that the center is located on.

My friends and I meet here all the time because the center has so much to offer. It has recreational rooms with hi-definition TV’s, a computer lab, and an art department where kids can paint. It even has an awesome skateboarding area complete with ramps and a jump pit. It’s a great place to hang out and do stuff together, but right now each of us are totally involved in our own individual pursuits. Regardless, none of us seem ready to leave each other’s company.

I glance over at my friend Chase as he hops up and down on his skateboard like a happy kangaroo, clicking and grinding the wheels on the warm black asphalt. He is the newly crowned city skateboard champion and he looks every bit the part. Beating his former best friend Junior in their terrific rematch has left Chase with tons of new confidence that radiates from his face as brightly as the autumn sun.

Left of Chase sits the brilliant junior-inventor Carlos Rodriguez Jr., also known as Los. His fingers are lovingly stroking the keys of his brand new smartphone. Los was recently selected and given the opportunity to beta test an advanced new smartphone before it gets released to the rest of the public. He has a big grin on his face and repeatedly keeps exclaiming, ooohhh! and aaahhh! as he uncovers new apps buried within the phones expanded application menu.

Lucky is seated next to me, wearing the expensive fire-truck red colored headset he got from his parents for his birthday. His real name is Jason Chin, but everyone just calls him Lucky because his parents are rich, not like castles and horses rich, but more like sports cars and neighborhood rich! Lucky is also a fantastic young deejay and he’s always creating new beats in his head.

Things couldn’t be better for us boys. We’re all best friends as tight as my granddad’s ever shrinking dress pants! My Grandmother Clara says that Granddad’s belly is growing higher and wider every day.

Staying at their house…our new house… is finally getting a little easier for my two little sisters, Akara, and Amaria, and me. I’m still getting used to calling it our house though.

Chase rolls his board over towards me and asks, "Hey Q, did I leave my blue hoodie at your house the last time I was over?"

I think about it for a moment and nod. "Yeah I think my grandma washed it, and put it with the clothes you left at our house the time before the last time you stayed over! She said to tell you that rent is due next week!"

We both laughed at her joke.

We’ve almost become like brothers this summer. And while the fellas and I have become bonded together so closely, we’ve also become friends with three girls from the neighborhood.

Jasmine (a.k.a. Jazz), Kawena, and Ginger are huddled closely together, sitting a few feet away from us boys. The girls are looking and laughing at videos on Ginger’s large pink covered tablet. They seem barely able to contain themselves as they squeal in laughter at some funny images on the screen. I have