Title: Bang!
Description: Thirteen-year-old Mann lives in a dangerous world. People in his neighborhood are being shot and killed. After his brother is murdered, his family changes. Mann's father abandons Mann while on a camping trip thinking that it will toughen him and force him to become a man. Mann then struggles to discover the man who he wants to become. (Book Blurb)
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Problem families, African Americans, Identity (Psychology), Inner cities, Violence, Dysfunctional families, Family problems, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Coming of age, Individuality, Children's fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Violence, fiction, Family life, fiction