LTRC 2012 – If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
Monday, August 1, 2011 10:53If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
DeShawn lives in the Frederick Douglass Projects, ruled by the notorious Douglass Disciples. DeShawn grows up fast helping to support his family and will soon be shouldering the responsibility of fatherhood. DeShawn is smart and sees college as his way out of his situation, but the Disciples want to use his smarts for their own empire.
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Maigien Carter says:
October 29th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I recently read “If I Grow Up” and I thought it was amazing. In many ways it showed not only the reasons behind the joining of the gangs, but the consequences of joining. It also shows that the person living there in the ghetto/hood may want to get out but gets caught up in it because there is no food at home, the schools are not teaching, and the fact that it gives someone power hungry, power and the gang gives you a family if you don’t have one.