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Strasser, Todd

If I Grow Up

223 pp. | Simon | February, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-2523-1 $16.99
(4) YA Growing up in an inner-city housing project ruled by the Disciples gang, DeShawn seems fated to join up or be killed. Sure enough, the earnest twelve-year-old at the novel's beginning develops into a hardened gangbanger by book's end. The story's heavy-handed message is reinforced by compelling statistics about gang violence.
Reviewer: Norah Piehl

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