The boy is:

Nice

Caring

Positive

Enthusiastic

Brave

Heroic

Young

Childesh

Joyful

Scared

New Words

Frizzled - Fried until crisp.

Whizzing - Move quickly through the air.

Phizzing - To make a hissing sound.

Squelching - To make a soft sucking sound.

Shrivels - Cause to feel worthless or insignificant.

Gospel - The teaching of revelation of Christ.

Peculiar - Different to what's expected.

Billowed - To fill with air and swell outwards.

Tommyrot - Rubbish.

Lengthened - Make or become longer.