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Author

Moore, Wes, 1978-

Title Discovering Wes Moore / Wes Moore.

Imprint

New York : Delacorte Press, c2012.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Non-Fiction	975.2 MOORE	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	160 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Study Program	AR MG RL 6 PTS 6 153627EN PHS.
Contents	For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.
Indexed In:	Junior Library Guild
Summary	In a thought-provoking memoir, Wes Moore recounts his Bronx childhood and wonders why he later succeeded while another boy named Wes Moore ended up in prison.
Audience	Ages 15-17.
	Grades 10-12.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Genre/Form	Memoir.
Subject	Moore, Wes, 1975- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
	Moore, Wes, 1978- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
	Moore, Wes, 1975-
	Moore, Wes, 1978-
	Moore, Wes, 1975-
	Moore, Wes, 1978-
	African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Criminals -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Soldiers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
	African American men -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Criminals.
	Soldiers -- United States.
	Youth -- Conduct of life.
	African American men -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Criminals -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
	Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
	Youth -- Conduct of life.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN	9780375990182\(library\binding)
	9780385741675 (hbk.)