Concrete Candy: Stories

by Apollo

Six incendiary stories that reflect the rage and frustration - and the determination to survive - of America's disenfranchised inner city youth. A stunning debut from fifteen year old author Apollo. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385477805
• ISBN13: 9780385477802
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Your back!

Apollo can take my back any time. I was very surprised when I found out that he wrote this book when he was only 13. I think there should be a lot more books written by kidz for kidz like this one. Apollo spoke to me in my own words and I believe what he says. Some of these stories are sad or violent but all of them teach on tha real. I liked 'Four Wolves And A Panther' because tha white boy was really tha best panther of all. 'Trash Walks' was like a reminder that a lot of people don't care if kidz live or die. 'Bad Boyz' was an on point story about what being a black man should be all about and not what so many kidz think it's all about. 'Blackbirder' was a sweet story about how most of the 'history' we are taught in school is really European history. I hope Apollo writes a lot more books. Don't listen to 'Kirkus Reviews', and don't sleep on this book.

A GREAT BOOK!

Its really good to see that a young person was allowed to write a book like this for other young people like me. (I am 17) These stories are ON THE REAL and tell tha truth about what its like to be a kid in the innercity today. I wish I have found this book years ago so it would have saved me from doing a lot of stupid things. I think fictional stories like these tell it much better than any surveys or non fiction can do. Apollo has a very good way of writing and I hope to see many more books by this talented Brother!

Real stories for real young people

This is the kind of book that, if it had been given the media attention and respect it deserves, might have prevented some of the recent tragedies we have seen in our schools. Who better to capture the rage, frustration and alienation of young people that a thirteen-year-old writer. And when will we ever wise up and begin to listen, not to the so-called "experts" but to our own children who actually live thse lives? Each of these stories is brilliantly crafted and gripping. There is brutalitly, violence and despiar, but it is balanced by humor, comraderie and love. This book should be in every school library in the U.S. And, frankly, I don't think "Kirkus" would know a GOOD book if it walked up and kicked them!