After Tupac D Foster Newbery Honor Book review summary

After Tupac and D Foster (Newbery Honor Book):

D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died.> The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.

Price: $15.99
Published by Putnam Young Adult on 2008-01-10.

Average rating (6 reviews):

Rating: 9.0

Recent reviews:

Reviewed by anonymous on 2009-06-10: At first I did not care for the book, but then it grabbed me. Written in Black vernacular, it is not appropriate for elementary school (which I teach). But it is a beautiful presentation of teen relationships, a story of a (read more ...)
Rating: 8.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2009-04-13: Woodson, J. (2008). After Tupac & D Foster. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

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Woodson uses beautiful prose to share the experiences of the narrator, Neeka and their new friend D, who is in foster care. They maintain their (read more ...)
Rating: 8.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2008-09-14: This book is about two girls(Neeka and the narrator) who meet another girl named D Foster. All three of them share a common love for sounds by a singer named Tupac. The other common thing that the girls share is an (read more ...)
Rating: 8.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2008-07-24: "Everyone's got a purpose and it's just that they gotta figure out what it is and then go have it."

That's what D says anyway.

D Foster is the girl who shows up on their block one day at (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0

Reviewed by anonymous on 2008-05-07: Woodson's engrossing story contains a lot of big issues, but the main theme is about friendship, and how unexpected changes come into our lives as we are touched by others.

AFTER TUPAC & D FOSTER is a tension-filled story (read more ...)
Rating: 8.0