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Title:
The boy in the black suit
JLCTITLE245:
Jason Reynolds.
Personal Author:
Reynolds, Jason, author.
Edition:
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Physical Description:
255 pages, 30 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781442459519
General Note:
Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Includes a reading group guide.

Includes an excerpt from All American Boys by Jason Reynolds.
Abstract:
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Reading Level:
HL 760 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.8 10 171390.
Subject Term:
Funeral homes -- Juvenile fiction.

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Juvenile fiction.

Grief in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction.

Funeral homes -- Fiction.

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction.

Grief in adolescence -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Families -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Young adult fiction.

Teen fiction.
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