Myers, Walter Dean. Street love.MYERS, Walter Dean. Street love. HarperCollins. 144p. c2006.0-06-028079-4. $15.99. (Lib. bdg: 0-06-028080-8. $16.89.) JS* Myers employs the novel-in-free-verse format to tell a wrenching but ultimately hopeful story of teenage love set in Harlem. Damien, age 17, already admitted to Brown University, is attracted to 16-year-old Junice, whose mother has just been sent to prison for 25 years for drug possession and distribution. Wrestling with anger and grief, Junice is determined to protect her younger sister Melissa and not be taken under the wing of the Department of Family Services. She fights her attraction to Damien at first; she's concerned her troubles will overwhelm him. Damien, meanwhile, is in a "manhood MANHOOD. The ceremony of doing homage by the vassal to his lord was denominated homagium or manhood, by the feudists. The formula used was devenio vester homo, I become you Com. 54. See Homage. jam" with Sledge, a classmate who taunts him and says he's slept with Junice, and they get into a fight. Love conquers all The phrase Love Conquers All (Latin - Omnia vincit Amor, or sometimes, amor vincit omnia) originally appeared in Eclogue X of the Eclogues, a series of poems by Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC). in the end, when Junice and Melissa head off to Memphis to live with a distant relative and Damien runs off to go with them. Told from different viewpoints--not just those of Damien and Junice, but also their family members, friends, and a social worker--this deeply felt, poignant story is told in deft deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. strokes, with memorable language and some rap cadences. Both male and female YAs will be able to relate to it, and the tale's brevity Brevity Adonis’ garden of short life. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] bubbles symbolic of transitoriness of life. [Art: Hall, 54] cherry fair cherry orchards where fruit was briefly sold; symbolic of transience. and evocation EVOCATION, French law. The act by which a judge is deprived of the cognizance of a suit over which he had jurisdiction, for the purpose of conferring on other judges the power of deciding it. This is done with us by writ of certiorari. of strong emotions will give it appeal to reluctant readers as well. Another winner from the acclaimed author of Autobiography of My Dead Brother, Monster, and many other YA titles. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. *--The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. highlights exceptional books. |
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