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Dark sons / Nikki Grimes.

Title
Dark sons / Nikki Grimes.
Author
Grimes, Nikki
Publication
Grand Rapids, MI : Zondervan, c2010.

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Book/TextRequest in advance PZ7.5.G75 Dar 2010Off-site

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Description
190 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Ishmael (Biblical figure) > Fiction
  • Bible > History of Biblical events > Fiction
  • Novels in verse
  • Fathers and sons > Fiction
  • Stepbrothers > Fiction
  • African Americans > Fiction
  • Self-perception > Fiction
  • Self-perception > Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans > Juvenile fiction
  • Ishmael (Biblical figure) > Juvenile fiction
  • Stepbrothers > Juvenile fiction
  • Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction
  • New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
  • New York (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form
  • Novels in verse
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile works
  • Novels in verse – Juvenile fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2006
ISBN
  • 9780310721451 (softcover)
  • 0310721458 (softcover)
LCCN
^^2010008903
OCLC
  • 555625076
  • SCSB-12504410
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library