Details

Subject(s)

• New York (N.Y.)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Self-perception—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• African Americans—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Ishmael (Biblical figure)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Stepbrothers—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Fathers and sons—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Novels in verse—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Summary note

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Awards

Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2006

ISBN

• 9780310721451 (softcover)
• 0310721458 (softcover)

LCCN

^^2010008903

OCLC

555625076

RCP

H - S

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