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If I Grow Up

Todd Strasser

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 1555 Users | 245 Reviews

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Original Title:	If I Grow Up
ISBN:	1416925236 (ISBN13: 9781416925231)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2012)

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"WHEN YOU GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, THERE WERE NO CHOICES. NO GOOD ONES, AT LEAST."

In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and join gangs, and every kid knows someone who died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis.

DeShawn is smart enough to know he should stay in school and keep away from the gangs. But while his friends have drug money to buy fancy sneakers and big-screen TVs, DeShawn's family can barely afford food for the month. How can he stick to his principles when his family is hungry?

In this gritty novel about growing up in the inner city, award-winning author Todd Strasser opens a window into the life of a teenager struggling with right and wrong under the ever-present shadow of gangs.

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Title	:	If I Grow Up
Author	:	Todd Strasser
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	February 24th 2009 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Social Issues. Poverty. Teen

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Ratings: 4.12 From 1555 Users | 245 Reviews

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This book was an incredible read and it is about this kid named Deshawn and he lived in a really tough neighborhood in Chicago and the name of this place is called Fredrick Douglas Projects and it was definitely really tough living there. The author of this book is named Todd Strasser. Mike strasser has also made other books related to this book such as Give a Boy a Gun and Fallout. It starts of as a boy named Darnell getting thrown off of a building from the Douglas Disciples rival gang the

This book is so realistic. It makes me think about my life, and how sheltered I have always been. I feel bad for the people who think that the only way that you can live is in a gang. I wish we could get over the fact that everyones skin is colored differently. Everyone cries racist if a white person gets mad at a black persont, but when it is the other way around they aren't. It is just so confusing to me. But not really about the book, this was a really good book, and it told a good story. I

this was an awesome book i liked the action that was in the book also i liked that when he had no choice to join he had to take care of his family too.

This book was an incredible read and it is about this kid named Deshawn and he lived in a really tough neighborhood in Chicago and the name of this place is called Fredrick Douglas Projects and it was definitely really tough living there. The author of this book is named Todd Strasser. Mike strasser has also made other books related to this book such as Give a Boy a Gun and Fallout. It starts of as a boy named Darnell getting thrown off of a building from the Douglas Disciples rival gang the

I loved almost all of this book. Strasser paints a very realistic picture of a good boy, a smart kid with potential, sliding down into perdition largely because of forces beyond his control. DeShawn tries different ways to get out of what seems like destiny for every black man in the projects, but his route is always blocked. A teacher advises him to apply to go to a magnet high school, but because of the bad education he got earlier, DeShawn's aptitude test scores aren't high enough. He tries

DeShawn, a teenager living in the Projects, wants to not just get by, but get out. He wants what a lot of kids in his situation have given up on, and that's a good education, but his family is nearly out of money and the only way to get good money if you're a Projects kid is to sell drugs and join dangerous gangs, two things he knows are wrong. This book gives readers insight into a dilemma that many kids sadly have to face in reality, having to give up school and safety in order to take care of

Powerful little book. The main character DeShawn wants to resist gangs but is drawn into them slowly because of peer influence. The most interesting character was Marcus, the leader of the Disciples, whom the author made very human and all the more magnetic to both us and DeShawn because of that. The author included little non-fiction snippets of info about incarceration, poverty, and black men in between chapters. I think the intensity of the story would speak to kids, who could also learn from