After Tupac & D Foster (2009 Newbery Honor)
After Tupac & D Foster (2009 Newbery Honor)

After Tupac & D Foster (2009 Newbery Honor)

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Woodson, Jacqueline
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Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Age Range: 10 and up 
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Lexile Measure: 750L
Series: Newbery Honor Book
Hardcover: 153 pages
Publisher: Putnam Young Adult (January 10, 2008)

ISBN: 0399246541

 

Details: A Newbery Honor Book

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.

The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.



EAN: 9780399246548

Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English