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Discovering Wes Moore / Wes Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ember, 2013.; �2012Edition: 1st Ember edDescription: 160 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0385741685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 975.2/6043/092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • F189.B153 M65 2013
Contents:
For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's Last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.
Summary: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's Last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.

School Library Journal, March 2013

Booklist, October 2012

Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2012

Kirkus Review, May 2012

Publishers Weekly Annex, September 2012

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

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