Summer Reading Entry #4

I choose this book because it relates to African-Americans and their lives in the bad communities and their lives. What drew my attention to this book was that it was a Coretta Scoot King Honor Award, National Book Award Finalist, Michael L. Printz Award For Excellence In Young Adult Literature, & the cover of the book & rear of the book. There were personal connections I saw between myself and the novel after reading. And they are that I too am African-American and sometimes we are just wrong by our color but not by whom we are.

I would recommend this book to those who like Drama, Crime, Mystery, Third Person perspective, and First Person perspective. The book uses a mixture of a third-person screenplay and a first-person diary format to tell, through the perspective of Steve Harmon, an African American teenager, the story of his trial for felony murder in the state of New York. Why I would recommend this to those who like Drama, Crime, Mystery, Third Person perspective, and First Person perspective is because those who are more into the genres they like tend to read more of those genres. And if you only like to read either third, second, or first person perspective only then this book is for those who like third person perspective or first person perspective or both.