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    Discovering Wes Moore (The Young Adult Adaptation)

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    For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey.
     
    The story of "the other Wes Moore" is one that the author couldn't get out of his mind, not since he learned that another boy with his name-just two years his senior-grew up in the same Baltimore neighborhood. He wrote that boy-now a man-a letter, not expecting to receive a reply. But a reply came, and a friendship grew, as letters turned into visits and the two men got to know each other. Eventually, that friendship became the inspiration for Discovering Wes Moore, a moving and cautionary tale examining the factors that contribute to success and failure-and the choices that make all the difference.
     
    Two men. One overcame adversity. The other suffered the indignities of poverty. Their stories are chronicled in Discovering Wes Moore, a book for young people based on Wes Moore's bestselling adult memoir, The Other Wes Moore.
     
    Includes an 8-page photo insert.


    Praise for Discovering Wes Moore
     
    "Moore wisely opens the door for teens to contemplate their own answers and beliefs, while laying out his own experiences honestly and openly."-Publishers Weekly
     
    "He argues earnestly and convincingly that young people can overcome the obstacles in their lives when they make the right choices and accept the support of caring adults."-Kirkus Reviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2013
    ISBN9780804121927
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    • 3/5
      Kid's version of an adult memoir. Wes Moore is a Bronx survivor and a challenge to the statistics of poverty and violence. He grew up with a single mother after his father died suddenly when he was 4. Despite their surroundings, Wes' mother was determined to give her kids choices for their future. She works a few jobs to pay for Wes to go to an elite school, but when he begins to squander this opportunity and succumb to 'hood influences, she ships him off to military school in PA. After a rocky start that breaks him down, Wes flourishes, goes on to be one of the youngest leaders in the school, graduates from Johns Hopkins, and becomes a Rhodes scholar. Meanwhile he learns from his Mom about another Wes Moore, about the same age, also from the Bronx, who has chosen a completely different path and has just been jailed for murder. The name connection is what gets to Wes, so he strikes up a correspondence with the jailed Wes and learns his story and bears witness to its outcome. A tale of triumph, but also evocative of Gang Leader for A Day, so a little disheartening in that inner city woes have no easy solution. A very interesting correlation -- true, as I did further research! between reading scores around 3rd grade and the likelihood of jail time. Good discussion and eye-opening narration.
    • 3/5
      A young Rhodes scholar learns of another African-American young man of his own age from the same neighborhood with the same name who is accused of killing a police officer during a robbery. Why did the two boys grow up into such different lives?