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.
year: 2005, 2010, 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: ishmael, (biblical figure), juvenile fiction, fiction, fathers and sons, juvenile fiction, stepbrothers, african americans, self-perception, fiction, new york (n.y.), juvenile fiction, fiction, poems, african american, novels in verse, (biblical figure, bible, history of biblical events
Editions
Grimes, Nikki
Hyperion Books for Children (2005)
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.
Schools: 27
Grimes, Nikki
Zondervan (2010)
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.
Schools: 6
Grimes, Nikki
Hyperion Paperbacks (2007)
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.
Schools: 1
Grimes, Nikki
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.
Schools: 2