Billy Miller

Billy Miller is the main character and principal protagonist of the novel “The Year of Billy Miller” by Kevin Henkes. Billy Miller is an average 7-year-old boy, who is beginning second grade at the start of the novel. Billy and his family live in Constant, Wisconsin. Billy has loving parents, whom he calls Papa and Mama, and an annoying little sister named Sal. His best friend, Ned, lives down the block. Unlike other kids, Billy is worried about beginning second grade due to the accident he had a few weeks before at the Jolly Green Giant statue, where he fell from a lookout platform while trying to catch his baseball cap, blown away by the wind. Billy gets knocked out, wakes up in the hospital, and the doctor confirms that Billy is alright, though he will have a lump on his head for quite a while. It...