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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767864949 Title: Discovering Wes Moore Author: Wes Moore Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, ©2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9780385741675 0385741677 9780375990182 0375990186 9780375986703 0375986707 OCLC:767864949

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Discovering Wes Moore

Author:	Wes Moore
Publisher:	New York : Delacorte Press, ©2012.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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Subjects	Moore, Wes, -- 1978- -- Childhood and youth. Moore, Wes, -- 1975- -- Childhood and youth. Moore, Wes, -- 1978- View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Literature Biographies Young adult nonfiction Biography
Named Person:	Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore
Material Type:	Biography, Juvenile audience
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Wes Moore Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780385741675 0385741677 9780375990182 0375990186 9780375986703 0375986707
OCLC Number:	767864949
Description:	160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:	For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The chameleon -- Kid Kupid's last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.
Responsibility:	Wes Moore.

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The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

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