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Genre/Form: | Biography Young adult nonfiction Literature Biographies Young adult non-fiction |
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Named Person: | Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore; Wes Moore |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wes Moore |
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. |
Abstract:
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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