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Richie’s Picks: THE BOY IN THE BLACK SUIT by Jason Reynolds, Atheneum, January 2015, 272p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-5950-2
“I don’t need no money, fortune, or fame
I’ve got all the riches baby one man can claim”
Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, “My Girl” (1964)
“We started up the block, our cement world of trash cans blown into the street, stray cats begging, stoop sitters dressed in fresh sneakers smoking blunts in broad daylight, old ladies sweeping the sidewalk, tired nine-to-fivers walking slowly on t ...more
“I don’t need no money, fortune, or fame
I’ve got all the riches baby one man can claim”
Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, “My Girl” (1964)
“We started up the block, our cement world of trash cans blown into the street, stray cats begging, stoop sitters dressed in fresh sneakers smoking blunts in broad daylight, old ladies sweeping the sidewalk, tired nine-to-fivers walking slowly on t ...more
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Really loved this story--such an interesting look at the grief process, particularly through the eyes of a teenager. Also great coming 0f age story.
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