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Reynolds, Jason

The Boy in the Black Suit

257 pp. | Atheneum | January, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-5950-2 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4424-5952-6
(2) YA High-school senior Matt has a job at Mr. Ray's funeral home, but he's also in mourning, for his mother who died and his long-on-the-wagon father who's returned to drink. While all this sounds like heavy problem-novel territory, it isn't. Reynolds writes about urban African American kids in a warm and empathetic way that the late Walter Dean Myers would have applauded.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2015

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