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Retaliation (2007)

by Yasmin Shiraz(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

097181743X (ISBN13: 9780971817432)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Rolling Hills Press

series

Retalation

review 1: I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. I read this book in less than 24 hours. It is a gritty, violent, inner city drama. It is about a good girl, Tashera, who keeps her head down and gets through school with as little drama as possible. She begins to date a boy who is the star of the basketball team, Ahmed. On the way home from school one day Tashera is jumped by three other girls that she does not know. She is hurt badly and ends up in the hospital. It shows how this one incident spirals out and affects many others in Tashera's orbit. Her mother, her brother, who is former gang member and in a wheelchair from his gang days. The principal of her high school, who is trying to help break the cycle of violence. I think young adults should read this book and discus... mores the tips on conflict management in a classroom. I think all high school age kid could benefit from this, and probably some adults as well.
review 2: This book is about a high school girl named Tashera Odom. She lives in a part of Washington, D.C where there is a lot of gang violence. her older brother Khalil Odom used to be in a gang called the Duece Tres Crew but he got in the back and is wheelchair bound because he is paralyzed. When Tashera gets jumped by three girls and is in the hospital with e wounds her brother becomes active in the gang again and enlists the girls of the gang to find the three girls that jumped Tashera and beat them until they confess. While in the hospital Tashera knows about everything that is going on and writes to her favorite author Yasmin Shiraz to get some advice on how to deal with all her Dram and pain. less

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