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Bang!

by Sharon G. Flake

Juvenile fictionProblem familiesAfrican AmericansIdentity (Psychology)Inner citiesViolenceDysfunctional familiesFamily problems

Thirteen-year-old Mann lives in a dangerous world. People in his neighborhood are being shot and killed. After his brother is murdered, his family changes. Mann's father abandons Mann while on a camping trip thinking that it will toughen him and force him to become a man. Mann then struggles to discover the man who he wants to become. (Book Blurb)

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Book data: Open Library