![]() A few times it comes up that Charlie held up a candy store and spent two years in juvenile detention, there is some off-screen gang activity, and Charlie and a few others are casually cruel to Lafayette. Certainly throughout the book there are moments teachers might want to be aware of in advance. The opening scene involves Charlie ranking various groups by their “badness” or gang affiliation. She did not disappoint.īased on the opening lines though, what did greatly surprise me was that this book was appropriate for middle grade readers. ![]() This was a free book choice I made a while ago, knowing nothing about the title (I didn’t even have time to read the blurb) but simply trusting Jacqueline Woodson as a consistently excellent author. Oldest brother Ty’ree had to give up his dream to keep the family together, middle boy Charlie is consumed with guilt that he was away when she died, and Lafayette is engulfed by grief and trauma. ![]() Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, New York, 2000.Įver since Mama died, Lafayette and his brothers have been struggling to come together as a family. ![]() My edition Scholastic Read 180, originally published by G.P. ![]()
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