Title Dark sons / Nikki Grimes.

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Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department	TEEN 811 GRI	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 818 G862D	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	216 pages ; 22 cm
	eth African Americans lcdgt
	nat Americans lcdgt
Awards	Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 2006.
	ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 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.
Audience	Middle School.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader 4.8.
Genre/Form	Young adult fiction.
Subject	Ishmael (Biblical figure) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
	Stepbrothers -- Juvenile fiction.
	African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Novels in verse.
	Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
	Stepbrothers -- Fiction.
	Ishmael (Biblical figure) -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Self-perception -- Fiction.
	Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	Ishmael (Biblical figure) (OCoLC)fst00265222
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
	Self-perception. (OCoLC)fst01111797
	Stepbrothers. (OCoLC)fst01133072
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
	Ishmael, (Biblical figure -- Fiction.
	Father-son relationship -- Fiction.
	Brothers -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Self-perception -- Fiction.
	Bible fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Bible stories. (OCoLC)fst01921594
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Bible stories.
Other Form:	Online version: Grimes, Nikki. Dark sons. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, ©2005 (OCoLC)607685433
ISBN	0786818883 (trade)
	9780786818884 (trade)

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