Bronx Masquerade | Nikki Grimes

Bronx Masquerade | Nikki Grimes | Beautiful!!!

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Bronx Masquerade

	Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes Puffin, 2003 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 75 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class and reads it aloud, poetry-slam-style, he kicks off a revolution. Soon his classmates are clamoring to have weekly poetry sessions. One by one, eighteen students take on the risky challenge of self-revelation. Award-winning author Nikki Grimes captures the voices of eighteen teenagers through the poetry they share and the stories they tell, and exposes what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

Bronx masquerade

Have you ever read a book that was so axsiting and amizing? A book that would like to tell others about? The book I read is "Bronx masquerade." This book is about a kid who ended up in a bad neighborhood that wasn't his skin color type. Wesley Boone is a kid that does'nt want troble, but knows he is going to bump into trouble. The problem is that he is in a neighborhood with cholos and he is black. In the end of the book, Wesley Boone gets a gun to protect himself a ends up getting in trouble with gang members. Thats when Wesley was getting a hard time while walking home and he took out his gun and aimed at one of the cholos, then the cholos ran because they did'nt have any protection. To find out what happens, you'll have to read more.

I liked this book because it relates how hard it is for people with different colors to fit in also, decause of all of the exciting parts in the story thatleaves you breathless. Ialso like this book because its tells me that there are many problems in the city with vacist issue.

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Beautiful!!!

This book was a good book. It went deep into the poet's soul. It also went deep into the poet's life. I am doing this for an English assignment. I wouldn't read this book because of what the cover looked like or unless I was told to do so. But after I read the first few chapters I was amazed at how judgment was wrong. Don't Judge a Book by its cover!!

Incredible

Bronx Masquerade is story of many stories. 18 students share their stories, first in prose with the reader, then through poetry with their classmates.

This book is incredible. The author manages 18 different points of view, and the magical thing is the way in which they all connect. 18 teens who are so different and unique from each other, yet they all have things in common. You feel the growth in this classroom; at first no one really likes anybody else (hardly, anyway) but by the end no one feels alone anymore. They open up to each other through their poems, and there's always someone else who gets it, who gets what they're saying.

I read Bronx Masquerade all in one sitting. It grabbed me from the first couple of pages and I could not set it down until I turned the last one. The ending, by the way, was perfect. Everything about the book was perfect, actually. Highly, highly recommended.

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Bronx Masquerade

As a middle school intensive reading teacher, I have to say this novel truly proves itself to be of high interest to low level readers. Both the boys and girls strongly relate to the text and poetry of the characters. There are also many creative ways to create interesting lesson plans for this text. I highly recommend it as a book that will engage evolving readers. Each of my students, who have professed that they hate to read anything- have asked me to keep the copies I bought for the class. I plan to give one to each student on the last day of school...so I'll be rebuying them for next year!! This is worth a shot: Any offers for donations to my class? I have 30 students.

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