A great piece of realistic fiction: perhaps a bit too real for younger readers. Noire holds no punches with this one. The fireworks explode from page one. The title-caption “On these streets, no one can protect you.” Though it is somewhat predictable, I think Noire and 50 Cent www.nobodysmiling.com did a good job of twisting the main prediction of the story.
Baby Brother is about six brothers who made a promise to their dying mother that they would make something of themselves, stay together and most importantly take care of Baby Brother. Even though the eldest of the seven Davis boys did everything and anything under the sun when he was younger, and introduced his younger brothers to the fast life. He went away to prison and is now trying to walk the straight and narrow without preaching to his brothers about the very thing her introduced them to.
Baby Brother has a very bright future ahead of him, but suddenly it turns bleak. The one thing the Davis brothers could not deal with was anybody standing in the way of Baby Brother and Standford University. www.standford.edu He was to be the shinning star of the family. Revenge for the turmoil caused by the death and destruction brought two families together to fight for vengeance.
I think this book is attracting the younger readers, because they are drawn in by the illustrations on the-cover and the co-author 50 cent. Overall, it’s a great story, but the sheer reality is that it’s true. The problem is that it really happens. And there are too many books depicting what’s wrong, and too few about positive resolutions and resources to help combat the problems.
