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If I Grow Up (2009)

by Todd Strasser(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416925236 (ISBN13: 9781416925231)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

review 1: If I Grow Up is a realistic, cautionary book about what happens or can happen to far too many children, especially African American boys in this country without positive adult interactions and guidance (his grandmother was maybe 40 :/ ) The book made me think of the question, not if I grow up but why so many children have to grow up so fast. I know that it is a very real possibility for boys like the protagonist, Deshawn, to wind up in the penal system, but I was hoping that the book would have had a different outcome. I think that this is a book that would lend itself well to a teen book discussion in schools or library.
review 2: i thought that this book is a a type of book that every teenager should read because it tells you how a little boy goes from being ... morea good student in school to a drug dealer and ends up in jail. teens should read this because you can learn a lesson from this book. the lesson i learned is that never do something that you dont want to because its not worth it messing up your live for something that is not worth doing less

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