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Author:

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.

Title:

Rite of passage / by Richard Wright ; afterword by Arnold Rampersad.

Publisher:

HarperCollins,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

151 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Runaways--Fiction.
Gangs--Fiction.
Afro-Americans--Fiction.
Runaway teenagers--Fiction.
Blacks--New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Criminals--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Bildungsromane.

Other Authors:

Rampersad, Arnold.

Notes:

Includes criticism of Wright's fiction. Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging.

Indexed by:

Publisher's Weekly
Booklist
School Library Journal

ISBN:

9780064471114
006447111X

LCCN:

93002473

Locations:

30SX663 -- Osage High School (Osage)