When Crack Was King Juvenile Fiction Hispanic & Latino Art Social Themes - Friendship exploring what it’s like to

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and all his friends to keep him company while Sissy goes to sleepaway camp

Not only does Sunny’s dancing brighten the patients’ days

Hardcover / Paperback - From critically acclaimed author Jeannine Atkins comes a gorgeous

When Crack Was King Juvenile Fiction Hispanic & Latino Art Social Themes - Friendship exploring what it’s like toLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America