Sharon G. Flake, Author . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0548-8
The author of The Skin I'm In
offers another provocative slice of city life, vibrantly evoking its sights, sounds and smells. With her brassy voice and saucy attitude, 13-year-old Raspberry Hill emerges as a vivacious heroine. She knows first-ha
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Sharon G. Flake, Author . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $5.99 (188p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1503-6
"With her brassy voice and saucy attitude, 13-year-old Raspberry Hill emerges as a vivacious heroine," said PW. "The author candidly expresses the difficulty in breaking the cycle of poverty and leaves it up to readers to judge...
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Sharon G. Flake, Author . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0601-0
Once again, Flake captures the essence of inner city life as she continues her insightful saga of Raspberry Hill, an impoverished teen obsessed with getting money whatever way she can. As in Money Hungry, Raspberry's determination to build a...
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Sharon G. Flake, Author . Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1405-3
An impoverished teen obsessed with getting money whatever way she can, to build a nest egg for her and her mother, gets herself into trouble. "Touching upon issues of prejudice, street violence, homelessness and identity crises, this poignant...
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Sharon G. Flake, Author . Hyperion $16.99 (298p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1844-0
In a contemporary, hard-hitting survival tale set in a neighborhood where people get shot "for no real reason," Flake (The Skin I'm In
) follows an African-American boy's harrowing initiation into manhood. Two years after Mann's...
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Sharon G. Flake, Author Jump at the Sun $15.99 (168p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0693-5
Compilations of short stories and actual interviews lay bare teenage trials. Sharon G. Flake (The Skin I'm In) offers 10 portraits of teens and their romantic struggles in Who Am I Without Him? A girl gets a surprise response when she writes to a...
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Sharon G. Flake. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-05718-9
Ninth-graders Autumn and Adonis are polar opposites. Academics don’t come easy for Autumn, especially reading, but she’s a killer wrestler and the only girl on the school team. Adonis was born without legs, but is self-confident, disciplined, and an
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Sharon G. Flake. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-60960-9
It’s 1953, and 10-year-old Octobia May believes that “freedom is as big as the moon for a colored gal who ain’t afraid of nothing.” She’s eager to follow in her Aunt Shuma’s footsteps and go after what she wants, even if others disapprove. But...
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Sharon G. Flake. Knopf, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-59348-098-4
Twins deal with the fallout of their mother’s hospitalization in this emotionally raw verse novel by Flake (The Skin I’m In), set in Jim Crow–era North Carolina. After their mother nearly drowns, she’s sent to a Detroit hospital, leaving 11-year-old
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Sharon G. Flake, Author, Colin Bootman, Illustrator , illus. by Colin Bootman. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (132p) ISBN 978-1-4231-0032-4
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bright and brassy fifth grader named Queen narrates Flake's (The Skin I'm In
) resonant novel about the importance of friendship, imagination and being true to oneself. Though her father gave her a regal name so that others will respect...
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