| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
86 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Gary: Gary poem: (Chocolate city) -- In hell -- Hunger -- Confrontation -- Day dreamer -- Demographics -- Delaney Peacocks -- LaRoy -- Daughter/son soundtrack -- Girlfriend -- Pocket knife: (Game of Dare) -- Penitentiary -- Robbing hoods -- Son of a city: LaRoy and sister Sundays -- Black of gray -- Requiem in losing space -- Delaney -- Children of blues/Saturday night school -- Mamas -- Rooted -- Grandma -- Catch -- 38th letter to a man with no fame -- Fruit man -- Surroundings of LaRoy -- In our Venus -- Tough boy sonatas: Hypnotics -- Addiction -- Lifted -- Back tracks -- Ebonics -- Boys love words -- Stray -- Walking w/drama -- Burgers, homegrown -- Jivin' -- Dance of the ghetto fairies -- Tennis match -- Outside games. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems depicts the lives of poverty, crime, despair, and lost innocence of African American teenagers growing up in Gary, Indiana. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.5 2. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Children's poetry.
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Children's poetry. |
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Gary (Ind.) -- Poetry.
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Indiana -- Gary. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Cooper, Floyd, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781932425772 (alkaline paper) |
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1932425772 (alkaline paper) |
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1428732209 |
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9781428732209 |
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