After Tupac and D Foster

We need to understand these children we label as throw aways. Tupac was the voice of these children, but gunned down so young, the voice was silenced. It really makes me wonder why Macomb X and Dr. King become victims of hate in this THUG life like Tupac.

I've just completed this book for a college adolescent literary course and I will probably use this book when I begin teaching middle school. Yet I do feel that this book is for the 8th grade and high school.This book is about 3 African American girls who become very close. It tells of how they meet, who they look up to, and basically their everyday lives. I'll not go into more detail because you can find reviews and summaries elsewhere. I will state that it is a Newberry Honor book and deserves this award.

This book is a terrific slice of history and a bird's eye view into this working class community and the girls who become friends in the way that only teenage girls seem to do: deeply, passionately, and 'forever'. Ms. Woodson does a terrific job weaving in the unnerving presence of D, the girl in foster care and as such it is a thought-provoking work about ideas of what constitutes 'family' and how community exists both in and outside of our individual neighborhoods. Commitment to all, even with significant differences, is also described.

This book was an easy but good read. The end left me wondering about how the characters lives turned out. I would recommend.

I chose a fire for this book because it was very good but it could have been better in some ways. I would recommend this book for young African American girls. Maybe they'll understand some parts of the book more.

My daughter, who is an avid reader and hardly ever says that a book is boring, did not really enjoy this one. She had to read it for school (summer reading), and she found it to be very slow going. I guess the book won the Newberry award, but my teen and her friends had a difficult time finishing it for school. My daughter has been known to re-read a book because she loved it so, but this one barely got read and now sits dusty on a shelf. Just our experience with it. If you have to read it for school, I guess you have no other choice than to go with it.

I wish I had had this has a kid. I will read more Woodson. Sweet and sure and real and good. Real good.

Bought this book to read with a book lcub I go to with incarcerated girls. The kids were really into it. They loved Jaacqueline woodson stories.