Dark sons
By: by Nikki Grimes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children; Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Stepbrothers -- Fiction; Ishmael -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Self-perception -- Fiction; Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.