TY - BOOK AU - Ondaatje,Griffin AU - Salcedo,Erica TI - The mosquito brothers SN - 1554984378 (bound) PY - 2015/// CY - Toronto, Berkeley PB - Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press KW - Brothers KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Friendship KW - Mosquitoes KW - Popularity KW - Schools N2 - After he nearly drowns in a parking lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. While his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream-- about a lost brother, adventure in the Wild and, above all, how to be cool. Lonely and left out, Dinnn is filled with an unexplained longing. He sips spilled cola from discarded pop cans, attends school in an abandoned air conditioner and tries to make friends with the local street mosquitoes. He even finds a great black leather jacket in a roadside ditch, but that doesn't make him cool, either. Then one day, as fat would have it, a red minivan stops by the parking lot. And Dinnn and his siblings are suddenly on a road trip to the Wild, where new perils await an inexperienced city mosquito ER -