A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich / Alice Childress.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Childress, Alice.

Contributor:

• Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Drug abuse--Juvenile fiction.
• African Americans--Social conditions--Juvenile fiction.
• Drug abuse--Fiction.
• African Americans--Social conditions--Fiction.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Drug abuse.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

• Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 18 cm

Distribution:

New York : Division of The Hearst Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Avon, 1974.

Summary:

The life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem black boy on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.

Notes:

• Originally published in hardcover by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, Inc., 1973.
• "Now a Major Motion Picture from the People Who Brought You 'Sounder'"--Front cover.
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1974

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
• Banks Collection copy is "Eighth Printing".

Other Format:

Online version: Childress, Alice. Hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich.

ISBN:

• 0380001322
• 9780380001323

OCLC:

2397808