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Title Dark sons [electronic resource] / Nikki Grimes.
Author Grimes, Nikki.
Publication Info. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2010.
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Edition ePub ed.
Description 1 online resource (57 p.)
Awards Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2006
Summary Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Self-perception -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Ishmael (Biblical figure) -- Fiction.
Stepbrothers -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Stepbrothers -- Fiction.
Ishmael (Biblical figure) -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Self-perception -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780310408017 ODE (electronic bk.)
0310408016 ODE (electronic bk.)