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More copies of this ISBN:Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youthby M. Jerry Weiss
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In these fourteen authentic short stories, young people growing up in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., 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 of neighborly kindness . . . . These stories of young people of all backgrounds — from the privileged to the poor, from immigrant to native-born — beat with the pulse of city life. They neither extol nor condemn but frankly reflect the city's real excitements and perils. For urban teens, these are pages out of daily life. For those who live elsewhere, here is a glimpse into a world so often imagined. Table of ContentsBlock party, 145th Street style (Harlem, New York, New York) / by Walter Dean Myers — Freezer burn (Boston, Massachusetts) / by Michael Rosovsky — "White" real estate (Washington, D.C.) / by Sharon Dennis Wyeth — Rules of the game (San Francisco, California) / by Amy Tan — Alone and all together (Chicago, Illinois) / by Joseph Geha — American history (Paterson, New Jersey) / by Judith Ortiz Cofer — Dead man running (Baltimore, Maryland) / by Eugenia Collier — Blues for Bob E. Brown (Upper West Side, New York, New York) / by T. Ernesto Bethancourt — Blue Diamond (Las Vegas, Nevada) / by Neal Shusterman — Hollywood and the pits (Los Angeles, California) / by Cherylene Lee — The baldies are coming (Cleveland, Ohio) / by Paul Many — Don't split the pole (Morehead City, North Carolina) / by Eleanora E. Tate — The Avalon Ballroom (Greenwich Village, New York, New York / by Ann Hood — Old school/Fu-Char Skool (San Diego, California) / by John H. Ritter.
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