G. Neri
G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules and the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy....
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G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules and the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy. His work has been honored by the Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Antioch University, the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, the Junior Library Guild and the National Council for Teachers of English. Neri has been a filmmaker, animator, teacher and digital media producer. He currently writes full-time and lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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I was on a Truman Capote kick this summer, beginning with Capote, the movie, then on to the novel The Swans of Fifth Avenue, and finally, to this, a middle grade novel that introduces us to childhood friends Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee. I read this as a kind of personal catharsis, to help me ...
Appeal Characteristics: urban cowboys, father-son relationship, black male relationships, urban life, gangs, truancy, mother-son relationship, coming of age storyThis book reminded me sorta of an urbanized Hoot. It is actually based on a real place that specifically caters to urban males to help th...
A wonderful, uplifting story about a young man who makes connections and finds direction in his life when he goes to live with his father in Philadelphia and learns the ways of the inner city cowboy.
Yummy is true dystopia. It is the tragedy of an eleven-year-old kid caught up in the height of gang violence in 1994 in Chicago. The black-and-white art is mostly very effective, although it lead to some odd effects that occasionally stopped me cold. Neri tells the story through a peer of Yummy's, w...
A powerful graphic novel that tells the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, a 11 year member of a Chicago gang whose death in 1994 made the cover of Time magazine. A schoolmate tries to make sense of Yummy's brief life and violent death.
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