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Dark sons

Nikki Grimes

2007208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007Jump at the Sun · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9781423102519
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780310761501

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.

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