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DeShawn days / by Tony Medina ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS3563.E2414 D4 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medina, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American boys--Juvenile poetry.
- African American boys.
- African American families--Juvenile poetry.
- African American families.
- Inner cities--Juvenile poetry.
- Inner cities.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Inner cities--Poetry.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- Family life--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Narrative poetry.
- Juvenile materials.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., [©2001].
- Summary:
- Poems describe the life of an inner city boy.
- Contents:
- In my house
- My grandmother's legs
- What is life like in the 'hood
- My cousin Tiffany
- Watching the news
- My friend in school
- I hate graffiti
- I love rap
- Staying up late
- I love my block
- Cheering people up
- When my grandmother died
- In my mother's arms.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Christy Hale."
- "The illustrations are rendered in acrylic."
- "First Edition"
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraris in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1584300221 :
- 9781584300229
- 9781584302285
- 1584302283
- OCLC:
- 45023421
- Online:
- Publisher description
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