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A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich / Alice Childress.
LIBRA Rare PS3505.H76 H47 1974 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childress, Alice.
- 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
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