Who Am I Without Him?
Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives
New York : Jump At The Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, [2011]
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (106 pages)
Short stories about teenage love and angst. Taking readers through the minds of girls trying to define themselves while struggling to remain relevant to the boys in their lives, a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author offers a complex, always on-point exposition of black youth resolving to find self-worth.
Contents:
So I ain't no good girl -- Girl, didn't I say I don't write letters? -- The ugly one -- Mookie in love -- Don't be disrespecting me -- I like white boys -- Jacobs's rules -- I know a stupid boy when I see one -- Hunting for boys -- Wanted: a thug -- Not a boy -- A letter to my daughter.
Subjects:
Children's stories, American.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction.
Short stories.
Children's stories, American.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Dating (Social customs) -- Juvenile fiction.
Short stories.
Target Audience: 650L
ISBN:
9781423132530
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Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2005.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2005.