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Joosse, Barbara

Stars in the Darkness

32 pp. | Chronicle | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8118-2168-4 $$14.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. The narrator worries the night his older brother, Richard, doesn't come home, but he and his mother don't take action until Richard appears wearing a bloodied bandage. The unsensationalized story was inspired by a real inner-city teen conflicted about his gang involvement. Christie's illustrations, in which faces are rendered in extreme detail, reinforce the story's humanism.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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