Go Get a Book in Your Hand! 'Kesia's Teens': 'What They Found Love On 145th Street'

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Due to space restric- tions, I decided to draw attention to one story that fits into each category of the type of love depicted in "What They Found Love on 145th Street." First, we will look at the concept of family love, which is found in the following stories: "Mama," "Jump At the Sun," "The Man Thing" and "The Fashion Show, Grand Opening and Bar-B-Que Memorial Service," the first story in the collection. This story sets up the energetic pace and the edgy rhythm of Harlem where life and death merge.

The third type of love, love for the community, is powerfully captured in: "Burn," "Law and Order," "Madonna" and "The Real Deal." In the allabsorbing story "Burn," [Noee], the quiet, shy younger sister of Abeni Evans, tells this story from the first-person perspective. As it turns out, Noee, who is not much of a dater, ends up going on a semi-date with a man named Burn. He is the silent type. Mama Evans is quick to label him a "thug."

The fourth type of story is a love story, reflected in the following short stories of the collection: "Some Men Are Just Funny That Way," "Society for the Preservation of Sorry-Butt Negroes," "Poets and Plumbers," "Combat Zone" and "Marisol and Skeeter," which is my favorite.

What They Found Love on 145th Street In the title, What They Found Love on 145th Street (Wendy Lamb Books / Random House Children's Books, 2007) by Walter Dean Myers, the acclaimed, award-winning author convincingly displays portions of the lives of the multi-faceted characters who reside on or around the 145th Street Harlem community. [...] we will look at the concept of family love, which is found in the following stories: "Mama," "Jump At the Sun," "The Man Thing" and "The Fashion Show, Grand Opening and Bar-B-Que Memorial Service," the first story in the collection.

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Go Get a Book in Your Hand! 'Kesia's Teens': 'What They Found Love On 145th Street'

By KESIA

Special to the AmNews

Hi there, Fellow Teen Readers. Welcome to "Kesia's Teens."

Tell me, have you ever taken the time to ponder the lives of the people who live around you? So often we go through our lives without pausing to think of what the people around us may be going through. Oftentimes, we are surprised to find that their problems are similar to ours and that the one thing we are all looking for is love. And that's just what we will explore in this month's GoGAB'S "Kesia's Tee...

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