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By Walter Dean Myers
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-196087-1 978-0-06-196088-8
- Publisher
- Amistad HarperCollins
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Fiction
"Mr. DuPree, I will give you as much time to think as God gives me breath to wait," says Elijah I. Jones, the eighty-four-year-old proprietor of a Harlem soup kitchen for seniors. He's talking to his employee Paul, Myers's teen narrator, who didn't realize when he accepted this community service job that it would thrust him into a series of philosophical dialogues. Myers's bold novel gives readers the same gift Elijah gives Paul: the chance to think. Specifically, it asks them to contemplate social contract th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Sixteen-year-old Paul takes a summer job at a Harlem soup kitchen, run by eighty-four-year-old Elijah, who insists Paul contemplate ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
