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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects. This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the death of a black teenager who was found drowned in a narrow river in southern Michigan separating two small communities, one white and rich (St. Joseph), the other black and poor (Benton Harbor). "This sad message lends McGinnis's death meaning, even if, as the author admits, we will probably never know what caused it. Kotlowitz has produced a skillfully rendered, thoughtful study of a divided country in microcosm
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