Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth
By Unknown Author.
Description
Fourteen short stories about what it's like to grow up in the city—the glamour, the mean streets, and the neighborhood. In these fourteen authentic short stories, young people growing up in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, New York, and elsewhere contend with city realities: a former child-star must resist her mother's dreams of Hollywood to pursue her own interest in archaeology; in a Baltimore courtroom, a boy testifies against a drug dealer who, if freed, will surely want revenge; a block party in Harlem is the setting first for a family argument and then for an act ...
ISBN(s)
0892552786, 9780892552788
