Discovering Wes Moore

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Title:

Discovering Wes Moore

Author:

Moore, Wes, 1978-

Personal Author:

Moore, Wes, 1978-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Delacorte Press, [2012]

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary:

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Language:

English

Contents:

For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's Last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.0 6.0 153627.

Personal Subject:

Moore, Wes, 1978- -Childhood and youth.

Moore, Wes, 1975- -Childhood and youth.

Moore, Wes, 1978- -Childhood and youth-Juvenile literature.

Moore, Wes, 1975- -Childhood and youth-Juvenile literature.

Subject Term:

African American men -- Biography.

Youth -- Conduct of life.

African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.