Age
10+
Grade
5-9
Jacqueline Woodson
After Tupac & D Foster
Hardcover
(Putnam Young Adult Jan. 10, 2008)
A Newbery Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.
The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.
- Series
- Newbery Honor Book
- ISBN
- 0399246541 / 9780399246548
- Pages
- 153
- Weight
- 10.1 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.88 x 0.69 in.
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