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Autobiography of My Dead Brother

by Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator: Christopher Myers

Ages: 12+

Published: 2005

Publisher: HarperTempest

ISBN: 0-06-058292-8

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Fourteen-year-old Jesse depicts the complex life on the streets of Harlem. Pen and ink drawings and comic strip art.