| Six Out Seven |  | Author: Jess Mowry
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2380339
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 501
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0374220832
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374220839
ASIN: 0374220832
Publication Date: October 1993
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Fleeing from Mississippi to California following the arrest of his father, Met, a young black boy, is plunged into a nightmare world of drugs, violence, and poverty. By the author of Way Past Cool.
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Gripping novel with plenty of darkness and hope November 13, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was a great find & I highly recommend it if you like reading about hardships, addicition, real characters, poverty, and hope. Enjoy!
Six Out Seven? How about 10 out of 10? September 9, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In Six Out Seven, Jess Mowry has crafted a deeply poignant, graphic and utterly gripping depiction of life as a black youth in America today. Gifted with a real sense for dialogue (you can almost hear the characters speak) and an amazing ability to capture the settings he describes - be it the steamy deep south or the numbing squalor of the ghetto. His characters are real and human, and the reader cannot help but be caught up in their struggle for survival.
Six Out Seven is a spectacular, powerful and emotive piece of literature, that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
Great Read November 30, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off, I want to say that this is an excellent book. The beginning of the book was very slow, but once you merged into the nover further, the better the book got, and the harder the book was to put down. Its a basic black coming of age novel about a 13 yr old who leaves Mississppi and travels because of circumstances to Oakland, California. Ive reccommended the book to all my friends, and I suggest you do to. It uncovers alot of myths that float around about the black community that needs to be brought to light, and Mr. Mowry does just that![.] GO GET THE BOOK!...
 Interesting story, annoying writing November 20, 2002
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the character development of the story, and how the people are not all as they seem, and don't all believe in "the game" but have to do it anyway. However, the plot is a little weak and the verbage that the characters use grows old after a while, even though it's true to life. I find it hard to believe that people, kids, live like they are portrayed in this book. I appreciated the descriptive nature of the book and it gave me a phenomenal view into a troubled lifestyle but in a humanizing and sad way. It's a good book, just a little slow in the beginning and, in parts, not very well written.
What a fantastic book! May 5, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am writing from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. I finished reading this book last night (May 4, 2000) and, like Corbitt, had a real dream about it! Few books have been written about the incredible courage and strength of children living in the worst of times and the baddest of places. This is one of the best! And I agree with Corbitt - we (young Africans and African-Americans) have our destinies in our own hands.
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