Cover of Rite of passage

Book 1994

Rite of passage

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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Published
1994
  • Fiction
  • Gangs
  • Runaways
  • African Americans
  • African American teenage boys
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Children's fiction
  • Runaways, fiction

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. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.