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Myers,
Walter Dean.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY DEAD BROTHER
New York : HarperTempest,
2005
IL YA
ISBN 0060582928
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Jesse
and Rise have been best friends all their lives. Now in their teens,
the boys seem to be taking different paths. Jesse is very involved
in his art and hopes to go to art school one day. And Rise seems
to be drifting into some gang activity. As Jesse chronicles Rise's
life in art form, we learn about drive-by shootings and violence that mark
their everyday life. |
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SUBJECTS:
Gangs -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Drive-by shootings -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. |
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