Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youth

by M. Jerry Weiss

Book Overview

In these fourteen authentic short stories, young people growing up in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, New York, and elsewhere contend with city realities: a former child-star must resist her mother's dreams of Hollywood to pursue her own interest in archaeology; in a Baltimore courtroom, a boy testifies against a drug dealer who, if freed, will surely want revenge; a block party in Harlem is the setting first for a family argument and then for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892552786
• ISBN13: 9780892552788
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12