Title: Dark sons
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.
Subjects: Stepbrothers, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Bible, history of biblical events, fiction, Stepfamilies, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Stories in rhyme, Fathers and sons, fiction
People: Ishmael (Biblical figure)