Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006058291X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem; PS1, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, in Queens; the Akron Art Museum in Ohio; Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City; and the Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai. He wrote and illustrated the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Black Cat. He teaches at Parsons School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.. Printz Award, the current National Ambassador for Young People
Iron Buddha said Violent but deeply moving. This story has a very violent theme while one child is planning on being a drug dealer, and everyone feels he is wrong. A slightly slow moving story, but deeply touching.. An important teen read with beautiful black and white illustrations Jessica Lux Teenager Jesse is writing the autobiography of his childhood friend and "blood brother" Rise, in a series of sketches, portraits, and comic strips from their times together. Rise is a little older than Jesse and is starting to be pulled in by the allure of. Street Songs; Street Beat Jesse, 15 lives in Harlem, New York City. He is the only child of a bright couple and his best friend, Rise is one of his biggest influences.Jesse and Rise grew up together. When Rise, 17 turns to crime and joins the Counts, a local street gang and insists
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers delivers an unforgettable novel about life's hardest lessons, illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers.. The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn't know him. And so Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of his blood brother, Rise, and his comic strip, Spodi Roti and Wise, as he makes sense of the complexities of friendship, loyalty, and loss in a neighborhood where drive–bys, vicious gangs, and abusive cops are everyday realities
The Counts aren't a gang and the members tend to have a variety of aesthetic interests. . All rights reserved. J. From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 8 Up–Fifteen-year-old Jesse lives a clean and relatively careful life in contemporary Harlem. is a fine musician. This novel is like photorealism; it paints a vivid and genuine portrait of life that will have a palpable effect on its readers.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. J. Myers's story of urban violence and wasted youth unfolds inexorably, but the relationships among his characters–Jesse and his frightened parents; C. and Jesse; a local cop and the neighborhood boys; Jesse and a love-starved but sexually knowing girl&ndash