| A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich Contributor(s): Childress, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812418093 ISBN-13: 9780812418095 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $16.36 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: All Benjie wants is for someone to believe that he's more than just a 13-year-old junkie. "Packs honesty, immediacy, and humor into an exceptionally compelling story".Q"Booklist". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00702556 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.3" W x 7.2" (0.35 lbs) 126 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 41459 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Benjie is thirteen years old. He is poor, he is black, and he is hooked on heroin. Everybody wants him to get clean, but Benjie isn't sure he wants to kick his habit. The drugs make him feel calm. They make him feel better about his mom spending so much time with her boyfriend. They make him feel less afraid of living in a dangerous neighborhood. Without drugs, what will he have left? Told from the interchanging perspectives of Benjie's mother, her boyfriend, Benjie's teachers, friends, grandmother, and others -- and from Benjie's own point of view -- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich takes the reader from Benjie's first time experimentation with drugs, through his addiction, and into his attempts at recovery. The characters are so perfectly conceived and the dialogue so flawlessly real you will feel as though you know Benjie and those who occupy his world. |