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    "Autobiography of My Dead Brother", written by Walter Dean Myers, provides a tremendous perspective of the African American people that live in what is best known as "the hood".

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    Genre Like many other coming-of-age stories, Autobiography of My Dead Brother is a young adult novel.

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
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INTRODUCTION

Autobiography of My Dead Brother (2005) is a vivid, wrenching, and hopeful look into the confusing and scary lives teen boys face in poor, violent, urban worlds. Through innovative illustrations and honest characterizations, Walter Dean Myers captures the conflicts—internal and external, hopeless and hopeful—that less-privileged Americans face pursuing the American dream. A finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in the young people's division, Autobiography of My Dead Brother explores life in a Harlem neighborhood through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Jesse Givens.

Jesse is a gifted artist whose drawings (illustrated in the book by Myers's son Christopher) are an integral part of the text. Jesse uses his art to make sense of events around him, including the deaths of several friends, drive-by shootings, the threats of gang life, and the cha

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  • A realistic urban novel that probes a fatal crisis in the life of two boys.

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  • Like many other coming-of-age stories, Autobiography of My Dead Brother is a young adult novel.
    • This book is realistic fiction and describes the everyday lives of young teenagers that get themselves into bad situations.
    Genre.
    Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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  • Young Adult; Coming of Age; Tragedy; Family Drama.