Interest Level
Grades 9 - 12
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.0
Lexile Measure®: 590L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: NR
Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Family Life
- City Life
- African American
Sensitivity
- Adult Content
- Objectionable Language
- Violence
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Thirteen-year-old Mann lives in a dangerous world. People in his neighborhood are being shot and killed. After his brother is murdered, his family changes. Mann's father abandons Mann while on a camping trip thinking that it will toughen him and force him to become a man. Mann then struggles to discover the man who he wants to become.About the Authors or Illustrators
Sharon G. Flake exploded onto the literary scene with her novel The Skin I'm In, in 1998, and was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Since then she has become a multiple Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award winner and has been hailed as the voice of middle-grade youth and a Rising Star by The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
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