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Overview

Questions of identity and faith beset a New York City teen whose family has been shaken to its core by loss in this stirring, incisive novel from an author we all know and love.

Swirling riffs of language and a propulsive beat set this gritty, transcendent novel in motion. Amidst the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend Flyer are filming a documentary of their neighborhood. All around them are images that Jed's older brother Zeke wrote about: drummers, drunks, dog walkers, and the beautiful water towers that dot the city's skyline. But what Jed is really in search of is Zeke, a poet who loved jazzman Charlie "Bird" Parker ...

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Overview

Questions of identity and faith beset a New York City teen whose family has been shaken to its core by loss in this stirring, incisive novel from an author we all know and love.

Swirling riffs of language and a propulsive beat set this gritty, transcendent novel in motion. Amidst the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best friend Flyer are filming a documentary of their neighborhood. All around them are images that Jed's older brother Zeke wrote about: drummers, drunks, dog walkers, and the beautiful water towers that dot the city's skyline. But what Jed is really in search of is Zeke, a poet who loved jazzman Charlie "Bird" Parker and who left behind his CDs, a notebook, and a lot of unanswered questions. When Jed encounters a mysterious homeless

Fourteen-year-old, tongue-tied Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the year before.

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Eighth-grader Joseph Eli Diamond (or Jed) feels responsible for not being home when his older brother, a diabetic, went into insulin shock after drinking half a bottle of vodka, and he wonders if Zeke's death was accidental. Now Jed's having trouble speaking, and his uncommunicative family is falling apart. While making a movie about his New York City neighborhood for a school project, Jed sees many of the images his poet brother wrote about in his notebook, including a homeless girl whose "hard-soft eyes haunt my dreams." Though his growing friendship with the girl strains credibility somewhat, it does provide Jed a chance to save her in a way he couldn't save Zeke and to begin talking again. Through Jed's eyes-and camera-Mack (Drawing Lessons) paints a vivid picture of Jed's East Village neighborhood, full of characters who struggle on, despite both personal tragedies and the aftereffects of September 11. The author offers a realistic portrayal of a grieving family as well as other characters grappling with hardships, such as Jed's best friend, whose mother recently moved out. Some touches, such as Jed's younger brother's obsession with ambulances, seem scripted, and both Jed's speaking problem and Kiki's self-injuring never feel fully developed (conversely, readers may well appreciate the information on diabetes). Overall, despite a few rough edges, readers will find it easy to relate to Jed and many of the other brave characters in his corner of the world. Ages 14-up. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Thirteen-year-old Jed is seeking live-action video footage of New York's East Village, but in no time he finds himself chasing down a different layer of story altogether. Lines from his dead brother Zeke's poetry haunt this journey, evoking the rawness of uninvited memories and an unacknowledged guilt. Mack's swirling views of a restless city constitute both backdrop and context for Jed's grief. The changing energies of New York-water towers and sidewalks, cafes and the blinking on of evening lights-are rendered all the more real because we encounter them through the lens of the young protagonist's emerging consciousness. Here is a family unable to face the wrenching failure that Zeke's death represents to each of them, in a city that is itself coming to terms with the meaning of healing. That connection is commendably understated. The wound on the skyline is simply there, a reflection of an empty place at a table. Mack's handling of the toddler's response (play followed by an easy forgetting), is poignant and believable precisely because it is light and glancing. Jed's video-search for the city's heart slowly begins to untangle the threads of a diverse array of themes, as the tensions come together in the person of the homeless girl, Kiki. Other surprises both delight and comfort-the homage paid to emergent childhood literacy through Alice and The Carrot Seed; the power of community; and the strains of Charlie Parker from which the title is derived. Most of all this is a story about the resilience of life, that sometimes halts in a desperate stutter, but then re-gathers and goes forward, stubbornly refusing to cease. 2003, Scholastic, Ages 9 up.
— Uma Krishnaswami

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780439535908
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/1/2003
  • Pages: 208
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 670L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.42 (w) x 7.02 (h) x 0.84 (d)
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