Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G Neri

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G Neri

A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer, an 11-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his own gang. 11-year-old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Yummy's death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy's life. Was he some sort of monster, or just another kid? A compelling graphic dramatisation based on true events, this gritty exploration of youth gang life will prompt teen readers to question their own understandings of good and bad, right and wrong.

Neri is the author of Yummy: the Final Days of a Southside Shorty, a Coretta Scott King honor book, and the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award winner for Chess Rumble, a free verse novella. Surf Mules and Ghetto Cowboy, which won the Horace Mann Upstander Award, are two of his novels. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance, Antioch University, the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, the Junior Library Guild, and the National Council for Teachers of English have all recognized his work. Neri has worked as a filmmaker, animator, teacher, and creator of digital media. He resides on the Gulf Coast of Florida and writes full-time.

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ISBN 13	9781584302674
ISBN 10	1584302674
Title	Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
Author	G Neri
Series	Yummy And Safe Passage Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lee & Low Books Inc
Year published	2011-03-24
Number of pages	94
Prizes	Winner of Cybils (Graphic Novel/YA) 2010, Winner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Emerging Classic) 2012, Commended for Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2011, Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2012, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2012, Short-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2012, Short-listed for Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice 2013
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