Yummy
The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
Lee & Low Books · Print & ebook · August 1, 2010
Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his own gang members.
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- Who it’s for
- A graphic novel invites a harder look at childhood, violence, and who gets called a monster.
- Themes
- Youth gang life, Moral ambiguity, A child's death
- Genres
- Comics & Society, Comics Biographies
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Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his own gang members. Eleven-year-old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Robert "Yummy" Sandifer's death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy's life. Yummy could be as tough as a pit bull sometimes.
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Other times he was as sweet as the sugary treats he loved to eat. Was Yummy some sort of monster, or just another kid? As Roger searches for the truth, he finds more and more questions. How did Yummy end up in so much trouble? Did he really kill someone? And why do all the answers seem to lead back to a gang-the same gang Roger's older brother belongs to? Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty is a compelling dramatization based on events that occurred in Chicago in 1994. This gritty exploration of youth gang life will force readers to question their own understandings of good and bad, right and wrong.
Hard Questions
A graphic novel invites a harder look at childhood, violence, and who gets called a monster.
Come here for
- A stark graphic account of a child’s life in a youth gang
Expect
- Questions about blame, childhood, and easy divisions between good and bad
Where it sits
| Comics Biographies | 63% |
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| Comics & Society | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- US: African American Stories
- Loss & Grief
- Authors
- G. Neri
- Publisher
- Lee & Low Books
- Published
- August 1, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Youth gang life · Moral ambiguity · A child's death
- Reading lane
- US: African American Stories