Forfatter fødeår: 1983
'A masterpiece from beginning to end.' Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
The award-winning, bestselling verse novel is now a stunning graphic novel with illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff.
What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered.
From Carnegie winning author, a coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighbourhood lines - illustrated by award-winner, Akhran Girmay. A lot of the stuff that gives my neighbourhood a bad name, I don't really mess with.
To 24 hours earlier when Neon's big sister has advice about sex which makes him think he probably shouldn't be listening to his friends. To 24 days earlier.
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTSEverybodyran,ducked,hid, tuckedthemselves tight. Pressed our lips to thepavement and prayedthe boom, followed bythe buzz of a bullet,didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps.