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Bang!
Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know.
Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think.
And little kids look funny in caskets. That’s ’cause they ain’t meant to be in one, I guess.
Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go through in a lifetime. His family is still reeling from the tragic shooting death of
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Published
May 1st 2009
by Disney Book Group
(first published September 1st 2005)
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This book is about a thirteen year old boy and his lil brother got killed sitting on the porch playing wit toy soldiers and this guy came and shot him in his head nw all of his family is sad and angry about this lost. now his dad is tryn to teach him how to survive in the hood he took him to a forest presserve and elling them how to shoot a gun but he is afraid but kee-lee isnt afraid he always wanted to shoot a gun and he did. kee-lee friend moo moo got kiled and his lil brother now this kid na...more
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Abandon Alert! This book just did not do it for me, and I'm not sure it would do it for many teenagers either. While I don't think the idea of the book is bad, and perhaps some teens who live in similar situations would enjoy the book more, I just felt like it was too negative and drawn out. It seemed like every other page had the two friends, Mann and Kee-le, physically fighting and then being best friends again. To go with this, it just seemed like parts of the story that could have been two p...more
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Bang! That is the sound in Mann's head that replays over and over. Where he lives someone dies everday. Then one day the worst happends. His brother,Jason dies. Every since his little brother was shot and killed he hasn't been the same and his relationship with his dad quickly goes down hill. His dad is still upset about Jason's death and doesn't want to loose another Son. So, he tries out some methods to make Mann and close friend Kee-lee into men. I strongly disagree with his methods because i...more
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The book bang is good book.This book is about a boy named mann and hes going throgh alot in his life.He is struggling and trying to fight the fact that his brother jason died.Mann has a friend named kee lee and kee lee's brother has also died so him and man start smoking weed to forget about it.Mann is getting into fights and bad things because his brothers lost.Manns father thinks he got to be a man and be tough.so he dicides to abandon him and his friend in a place and let them find their way...more
This YA read was just about as moving as my favorite adult fiction novel, "The Accidental Tourist," by Anne Tyler. It's among my very favorite Young Adult novels now (probably only preceded by Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
As I listened to it on CD while commuting to work and back over this past week, it brought me to laughter and tears too many times to really count.
"Bang!" was... inspiring to my imagination in three major ways: 1) It made my passion for contributing to the cause for racial h...more
As I listened to it on CD while commuting to work and back over this past week, it brought me to laughter and tears too many times to really count.
"Bang!" was... inspiring to my imagination in three major ways: 1) It made my passion for contributing to the cause for racial h...more
Summary: Bang! is a story about a thirteen year old boy named Mann, who watched his younger brother, Jason, get killed on his own front porch. The novel Bang! is explaining what Mann has to face in his life after Jason's death such as family problems, school problems, and his father caring less about everything about him. His whole family's hopes for a good future were obliterated the second Jason had died. Mann becomes corrupt, and feels that he is going insane. He drinks, he smokes, he wants t...more
Sharon G. Flake deserves a billion dollars, a free trip to disneyland, a supercomputor, and recognition directly from the white house for writing this book. Every bad YA author should be forced to write an apology to her for keeping filling teenagers minds with trash and preventing them from reading this book. This book is epic, this book is deep, it made me get angry, feel sympathy, pity and above all else it made me want to cry. Oh yeah and another thing about this book, it makes it special, i...more
This book is about a kid who is growing up in an unsafe neighborhood. He gets distracted from baby sitting and his little brother ends up shot and killed. After this misfortune his family and home life is not so good. His parents are suffering from depression and all type of changes, so the kid that is the main character pretty much is having a hard time. He turns to marijauna usage, and not going to school. His dad feels as if his youngest son would not have been in his situation if he would ha...more
I read the book Bang! by Sharon G. Flake. Random shootings have become increasingly common in Mann's neighborhood. Mann is horrified when his little brother is gunned down while playing on his own front porch. Two years later, the 13-year-old and his parents are still struggling with their grief. His father believes that if he had been less loving and protective, Jason might have been tougher and capable of avoiding the shot. Mann and his friend Kee-lee keep track of the shooting deaths around t...more
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From the very first page to the last thisbook grabs your attention and haves you flipping the pages faster then your fingers can function. Not only ws it truely sad buit it was an eye opener to how violence and the death of a single person can efect a family so greatly. I can only imagnie how it feels to lose someone that close and have my family go completely insane and things in my neighborhood to be so chaotic. Something as simple as sitting outside of your home can lead to your death...Not...more
This Book Bang! is About A Boy Name Mann That is Living a Grown Man's Life . His Little Brother Jason Died When He Was Only 7Years Old. His Mother Weep's Every Night And Day, His Father Acts Like Nothing Ever Happend. Now His Father is Pushing Mann To a Point No 13 Year Old Boy Can Handle. Mann Loved His Little Brother With All His Heart Until His Life Was Taken Away. Mann Thought Ever Thing Wass Gonna Be Okay Once He Had His Best Friend Keelee. They We're Bestfriends Since They We're Babies. Th...more
Hmm. I love Sharon Flake. Money Hungry, Begging for Change, Who Am I Without Him, You Don't Even Know Me. L-O-V-E her! So I feel terrible about not liking Bang! The thing is, Bang! is a really good book. I just hated it. It was so upsetting. It made me so angry. It was just so sad. Now sometimes I can give a book a rave review anyway, when I agree that it is wonderfully written but it upset me. This time it just upset me so much that I just can't give it a glowing review.
Mann is a young teen gro...more
Mann is a young teen gro...more
Sharon G. Flake wrote Bang! to inform her audience about the hardships of growing up in a ghetto neighborhood, and experiencing death at an early age. Mann Adler was only 11 years old when his younger brother Jason was fatally shot by a gang banger for no apparent reason. The effect that the murder had on the whole Adler family has drastically changed their points of views on life, and their identities. Mann's father takes him and his best friend on a journey to becoming a "man" in a society whe...more
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Dear sharon G. flake,
there is a lot of stuff i really liked about your book.One thing i really liked about your book is how realistic you made your book seem.To me i felt like i was watching a movie when i first read your book. I also liked how you explained the details in the book, like the settings, how the characters felt and the thoughts that were going through their mind.
I also liked the way you structered the book because i was able to compare some of the parts with my...more
Dear sharon G. flake,
there is a lot of stuff i really liked about your book.One thing i really liked about your book is how realistic you made your book seem.To me i felt like i was watching a movie when i first read your book. I also liked how you explained the details in the book, like the settings, how the characters felt and the thoughts that were going through their mind.
I also liked the way you structered the book because i was able to compare some of the parts with my...more
I haven't read a big part of the book. I just started reading it today, but I think is really good. Well it's "interesting". Its about How men aren't men until they stop pretending that they're tough. There's this little part of the book that i really like. It's called..Boys ain't men ....yet.
"Boys ain't men... yet
They sneakers with strings untied
Broken bikes and blackened eyes
Fast footraces and dirty faces
But they ain't men not .......yet"
This is my favorite part of the book because Sharon G...more
"Boys ain't men... yet
They sneakers with strings untied
Broken bikes and blackened eyes
Fast footraces and dirty faces
But they ain't men not .......yet"
This is my favorite part of the book because Sharon G...more
This book is all about a boy who lost his little brother and by then decision of his father has to live his life on his own. despite what he's all the odds he finds a way to survive.
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Gritty, but powerful. The plot isn't very strong, but the emotions and development of characters are.
Mann's little brother Jason was shot and killed two years ago - playing with toy soldiers on his front stoop , wrong place, wrong time. His family hasn't been the same since. Mann's dad, still unable to deal with the death of Jason, is determined not to lose another son, so he sets out to make Mann a man, by forcing him to learn to survive on his own. But becoming a man might mean that he loses h...more
Mann's little brother Jason was shot and killed two years ago - playing with toy soldiers on his front stoop , wrong place, wrong time. His family hasn't been the same since. Mann's dad, still unable to deal with the death of Jason, is determined not to lose another son, so he sets out to make Mann a man, by forcing him to learn to survive on his own. But becoming a man might mean that he loses h...more
iiReAlly LyK3iiReAlly LyK3 DiiS bOOK!!!!"mANN"iiS The MaiiN Character He Have A Lil Brother Who Died On Dere Front POrch(Jason)Who Was Only 3yrs Old!!!Mann ReMiND Me Of A Boy iiKwn Because HiiS TwiiN Died!!!RiiGht iiN fROnt OF Hiim!!!!!Mann Have A FRiiENd NaME "Kee-Lee" Who HAve Alot OF SibliNGS!!!Kee-Lee DNt GO 2sKOOl HE iiS a Dropout!!!!!!Kee-Lee BROTHER-&&-CuziiN Both Died Bye GettiiNG Shot!!!Mann MaMa Celebrates Jason BirthDay Every Year She Buy Giifts Make A Cake That He Knt EAt OR...more
I thought Bang! did a good a job of showing how a shooting can affect a family and almost destroy it. It clearly illustrated how the loss of a child can drive a parent to extremes in hopes of protecting the surviving child(ren). In Bang! Mann's father - leaves Mann and his best friend Kee-lee in the wilderness many miles from their inner city homes- in hopes that there multi-week journey home without money for food, supplies etc will make them tough - and perhaps he hopes resistant to bullets. I...more
“(It) was real sad. But I didn’t cry. You can’t cry for everybody who gets shot- otherwise you’d cry your life away.” Bang by Sharon G. Flake is a novel about an eleven year old boy whose seven year old brother Jason died in the Ghetto, where their home is, by being shot on their front porch. There was not a single reason why his brother was shot. Mann believes it is his own fault. Throughout the book more and more people Mann knows are killed, beaten or move away. I’m not exactly sure why Flake...more
Bang, by Sharon G. Flake, is a fiction novel about becomming an adult. Mann, the main character, lives in a terrible neighborhood and his family has many problems. Kee-lee is Mann's best friend and they do almost everything together. A couple years ago, Mann's brother, Jason, was shot which left his family devestated. People are still getting shot in Mann's neighborhood. Mann is good at painting, but he starts having other things to deal with. Mann's father wants him to become a man, but Mann s...more
Bang! and bullets fly through the air and into Jason, the 7 year old little brother of the 13 year old boy named Mann. After Jason's death, Mann and his family start to get many different problems. Him and his mother becomes depressed for over 2 years. His dad, William, does some of the craziest things to Mann to turn him into a "man". William even leaves Mann and his best friend Kee-Lee at a camp-ground to travel home on their own to become "men". they get terrible experiences on their journey...more
This whole time Mann was becoming more of a man. He didn't know it, but he was. He was taking care of himself, making a problem into something good, working with his hands to build stools, and painting pictures of people to make money. Being a man is being able to overcome your obstacles, to change. In the beginning of the book, Mann was afraid to go off on his own, now he didn't need anybody. He was taking care of his horses and himself. When he was first on his own, he was killing, stealing, a...more
this book is about a boy named Mann who is 13 years old, & his younger brother had died, he was outside playing when BANG! he was shot, Mann has yet to forget it, which he wont, his father takes him & his bestfriend on a camping trip & leaves them stranded to find their own way home, they make it home after being jumped by a bunch of white people, the racsist kind, and nearly starving to death, after they get back his dad sends them back out alone, this time with food & money, bu...more
Bang is a fast read so don't be intimidated by the number of pages. This is a book about life in the hood. It is also a very sad book. I liked this book because it had a lot of action, thats why I think its more of a book for people who like action, but also need to be able to bear some sadness. I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 stars because too many people died for it to be a 5, but besides that it was a really good book for me.
When Mann's (the main character) brother dies, his father goes...more
When Mann's (the main character) brother dies, his father goes...more
In the book bang the main character was facing hard times after the recent loss of his younger brother. This is a sad story about coming of age and trying to find yourself with the burden of knowing your brother is gone and it’s tearing your family apart. With a military father who believes men shouldn’t act like a “sissy” and a mother so deep into depression she has forgotten how to live. This story was full of action from the first page all the way to the end. Through the book you saw the main...more
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Bang! was about a young boy, who goes through hard depressing times in the process of becoming a man. He's given one choice only; fend for himself in the streets, and become the man he never thought he'd be.I think the book was pretty good. It taught life lessons and even gave scenario's to overcome many obstacle's.It made me look at situations differently. I would recommend the book to the young teen audience. I like the book because it was very realistic unlike most books. When I read the rev...more
Oct 25, 2009
Anna
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Recommends it for:
urban male teens
Recommended to Anna by:
Alfred Tatum (although not personally!)
I decided to read this for a couple of reasons. One, I'm trying to read more YA books by African American writers. Two, I'm trying to find more titles that will engage my African American students, especially the males who are often reluctant/struggling readers. Three, Alfred Tatum describes this as a meaningful and relevant text for African American males in his book, Reading for Their Life, which I am currently reading.
I stopped on page 150. I read this with the same lack of interest that I ha...more
I stopped on page 150. I read this with the same lack of interest that I ha...more
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Sharon G. Flake is the author of five books, The Skin I'm In (1998), Money Hungry (2002), Begging for Change (2003), Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories About Boys and the Girls in Their Lives (2004), Bang! (Sept. 2005), and her latest novel The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street (2007).
Her work is used in public and private schools around the nation, from elementary to high school, and...more
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