Rite of Passage
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- Synopsis
- "Harlem. The late 1940s. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs loves his parents, respects his teachers, and is a model student. Suddenly, his familiar world falls apart. Johnny learns he is really a foster child who the welfare authorities have decreed now must go and live with another family." "Stunned by the revelation, Johnny runs away. The startling events that follow, during Johnny's nightlong confrontation with alienation and loneliness, will inexorably push him past the frontiers of childhood and into an unknown, violent world beyond." "Rite of Passage, Richard Wright's never-before-published story of Johnny Gibbs's fall from grace, is as pertinent to the fate of many young people today as it was when it was first conceived nearly fifty years ago."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 156 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780060234201
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 05/29/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Ellen Wright
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- 170
- Proofread By:
- 170
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.