Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Yummy: the last days of a south side shorty

by Greg Neri
Hennepin County Lib paperback 94 pages
genre: YA graphic novel non-fic

Yummy was an eleven-year-old boy in Chicago in the 1990s. He murdered and was murdered. His life and death raised awareness and passion. Violence cannot be ignored when children are both the perpetrators and the victims. Done in black and white, this graphic novel could easily be a part of my collection with its realistic portrayal of Yummy's story, without being disturbingly graphic.

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