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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780064471114 ISBN: 006447111X Label: HarperTeen Manufacturer: HarperTeen Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: January 31, 1996 Publisher: HarperTeen Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: December 19, 1995 Studio: HarperTeen Editorial Review: Product Description: Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life--the hard way. Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as when it was first written, over fifty years ago. `Johnny Gibbs arrives home jubilantly one day with his straight `A' report card to find his belongings packed and his mother and sister distraught. Devastated when they tell him that he is not their blood relative and that he is being sent to a new foster home, he runs away. His secure world quickly shatters into a nightmare of subways, dark alleys, theft and street warfare. . . . Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a enw generation of readers to Wright's powerful voice.'—SLJ. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rite of PassageThe book Rite of Passage was really interesting and exciting because it's about a boy who has lived with the same family all his life until he's taken away by a different family. Then he runs away from the family and then joins a gang. The best chapter of the story is 1 to me because it is when Johnny is told that he is being taken away buy a new family there is a lot of emotion. Then when his new family comes to pick him up he does the last thing he can think of and that's run away and he does. ... Read More Rating: - A.S. Wold Studies Rite of passageThe book rite of passage by Richard Wright I thought was interesting and easy to follow. It was adventursome and was exciting. It was also short and easy to comprehend. the book was very discriptive and gave me a good picture of what each caracter was like. there was a ten-page fighting passage that was suspensful because the caracters kept on trading off winning. the book made me relize how good i have it, a family,a good school, and a good place to live.Overall I would recamend this book to ... Read More Rating:  - Love the story, but too shortI have read one of theother books written by this author, and loved them, so I thought I would read this one as well. The story was very good. The wording was put a little too simply, but it was an overall good book. It kept me interested, and I didn't put it down until I was done. The only problem was that it was very short, and ended too abruptly. The story didn't exactly end. I would have liked to hear more about what happens to The Moochers. Seeing some sort of conflict would have been ... Read More Rating:  - Rite Of PassageI thought that this was an excellent book. I loved the fact that this was taken place in the ghettos of New York. I also loved the excitement it builded up in me. I couldn't take my hands off of the book. The only one thing that I didn't like was the ending. I didn't like it because I was hoping for him to go back with his family. Rating: - Rite of Passage - a one day journeyRite of Passage is a short book that takes place over the period of one day. Johnny, a fifteen year-old goes from goody-goody two shoes teacher's pet momma's boy to knife fight"don't mess with me or I'll cut you up" gangster boy. The story started with Johnny getting straight A's in school, walking home to his bowl of soup waiting for him. When he gets there, he finds out his parents aren't his real parents. He is going to go to another foster home. His "parents" were supposed to tell him a year earlier, ... Read More |
