Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
by:
Randy DuBurke (author)
G. Neri (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781584302667 (1584302666)
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
African American,
Picture Books,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics
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.
A story I've heard and seen before, but it didn't stop this stark b&w graphic novel from making a power impact on me. I cried at the end, because so many things have not changed.
Wow! An eleven-year-old boy with a sweet tooth and a teddy bear is a career criminal who joins the Black Disciples gang in Chicago and murders a fourteen-year-old girl. This dramatization of real life events packs a powerful punch and poses provocative questions. Was Yummy a cold-blooded killer or a...