Bunya the witch,

By Robert Kraus

Book Overview

Tariq Ziyad infuses his real life experiences with the fictional story of Chauncey Carr to show readers the truth behind the world of gangs and terrorists, and hopes his story illustrates the reality of gang life and what it's like behind bars. The book's main character joins The Almighty Unknown Vice Lords, a prison gang, as a teenager, but nine years later when he is released from prison, he aligns himself with Ishmael Rios, a member of the Latin Kings. Ishmael has access to cocaine through corrupted CIA pilot, Wally Dilliard, and it doesn't take long for FBI agent John O'Neill to catch Chauncey trafficking drugs, which results in Chauncey being sentenced to federal prison. While in prison, Chauncey meets a convicted terrorist, and despite his dislike for him, he uses the relationship to get his sentenced reduced by passing information on to O'Neill-but the FBI agent is killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving Chauncey in prison. He spends the ensuing years writing about his time spent with crooked DEA agent and Zionist, Dikko Katsa, who tipped off his close friends and cocaine field owners, Wally and his family, so that they were able to clean up the lab before DEA agents showed up. Upon his release, Chauncey travels to see his son after hearing he has joined Chauncey's old gang. On the bus he meets feminist poet, Tina, who shares similar dreams of publishing someday, and they begin planning a better future together. Their plans are suddenly threatened, however, when Chauncey becomes the hunted after Wally learns he is sharing information with federal agents and vows to stop at nothing to silence him forever.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878070044
• ISBN13: 9780878070046
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

One of my all-time favorite books! (And I've read children's books to my 8 kids and now to my 15 grandchildren.)

Very cute book

A charming story with Old World flavor about a little old woman who doesn't know she really is a witch. This story imparts values about kindness and forgiveness to young readers.