A boy of nine is enormously wise and has a great deal to tell, if anyone at all would listen.  And yet it is a fact that the ideas and opinions of many boys of nine are given very little notice or are entirely overlooked.  Many adults who could learn from them, if they would, pass them by in a great hurry.  It is not a perfect situation.

This is a quote from the book The Cricket Winter by Felice Holman.  It's a book about an underappreciated boy who exchanges Morse code messages with the cricket that lives in his house.   It's a lovely book and I highly recommend this be added to your summer reading list.