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A different kind of heat
By Pagliarulo, Antonio
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38573-298-7
- Publisher
- New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2006
Gr 9-Up Seventeen-year-old Luz Cordero is very, very angry. After a cop shot and killed her brother on a Bronx rooftop, she started a riot at a police-brutality demonstration and landed in a group home for troubled youth in Harlem. This book is the diary of her second year without Julio as she comes to terms with his death, her rage, and the cop himself. Pagliarulo knows the cadence and music of Bronx speech, and Luz spits foul, staccato street language wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
