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Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned
Title:
Pedro & me : friendship, loss, & what I learned
Author:
Winick, Judd.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt, 2009.

©2000
Physical Description:
187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
In this memoir in graphic novel form, the author relates his friendship with an HIV-positive AIDS activist while they were roommates during the filming of the MTV show "Real World: San Francisco". As a speaker and educator, a guest on many talk shows (including Oprah), and when his tragic death received front-page coverage in the press, Pedro taught a generation that AIDS was not a punishment for moral defects or a mere killer that reduced humans to wraiths. Rather, he showed how those afflicted with the disease could live and love nobly with intelligence, humor, and great humanity.
General Note:
Reissue with new foreword.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
460 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.9 2.0 47266.
ISBN:
9780805089646

9781442025332
Format :
Book