When Crack Was King Juvenile Fiction Hispanic & Latino Art Social Themes - Friendship Fledgling is a captivating novel

Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human

and all his friends to keep him company while Sissy goes to sleepaway camp

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a stunning new novel about twin sisters

When Crack Was King Juvenile Fiction Hispanic & Latino Art Social Themes - Friendship Fledgling is a captivating novelLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America