| After Tupac & D Foster Contributor(s): Woodson, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0399246541 ISBN-13: 9780399246548 Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2008 Annotation: A lot can happen to three girls in a two-year period--especially when the rap music of Tupac Shakur is the glue holding them together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Music |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007023725 |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.77" W x 8.44" (0.63 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Friendship - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 120399 Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Newbery Honor Book Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur's rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he's coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac's lyrics become more personal for all of them. The girls are thirteen when D's mom swoops in to reclaim D--and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply. |