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After Tupac and D Foster
After Tupac & D Foster (Newbery Honor Book)
After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson
A Newbery Honor BookJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureThe day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Biography

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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After Tupac and D Foster is a book about friendship, love, risks, and knowing what to do in life. D Foster arrives shortly after Tupac, a famous singer, gets shot and arrested. She's a mystery to everyone and brings something different to the neighborhood...herself. She changes the perspectives of everyone and makes them realize there's always two sides to a story. If you like books that are about realistic friendships that never die out, then read After Tupac and D Foster.

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