Monster

mimo bardzo dobrego tłumaczenia nie da się w polskim języku tej niezwyklej różnicy, która zachodzi pomiędzy "innocent" a "not guilty"......more

amended review, with spoilers: are all teen books written in eye-catching, typographically unconventional ways?? or is it just this one reading list?? i have nothing really to say about this book, except that for a sixteen-year-old boy in jail, it might benefit him to adopt less girly handwriting. ki......more

Walter Dean Myers (RIP!) was one of the most prolific and successful children's and YA authors ever, but this book, that I have taught many times and is a staple especially in urban schools, may be his best known, in print since it came out in 1999. I read it again in a Growing Up course recently, a......more

Nowhere in the book does the pointlessness of what has happened get mentioned. The basic plot is that right before Christmas a drugstore on Malcolm X Boulevard gets robbed. The owner pulls a gun, the gun gets turned on him and he dies. The thieves steal the money in the register and a few cartons of......more

Steve Harmon is on trial for his alleged participation in a robbery that lead to a murder. Steve is a sixteen years old African American interested in film making. The story unfold as a 'script' with Steve as the main character. The narrative is a deeply moving look into how young men are often caug......more