Description |
332 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Note |
1000L Lexile |
Contents |
Notions of roller-rink infinity -- Heyday of dag -- If I could pay you less, I would -- Gangsters -- To prevent flare-ups -- Breathing tips of great American beatboxer -- Tonight we improvise -- Black national anthem. |
Summary |
Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its own. |
Audience |
1000L Lexile |
Awards |
Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist, 2010 |
Subject |
Whitehead, Colson, 1969- |
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African American teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Adolescence -- Fiction.
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Sag Harbor (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- Sag Harbor. |
Genre |
Fiction.
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ISBN |
9780307455161 |
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0307455165 |
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