Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by
Black Writers From Around the World
 Compiled by Tonya Bolden
Foreword by Charles Johnson
Table of Contents
“Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade
Bambara (USA)
“The Scar” by Cecil Foster
(Barbados)
“The Day the World Almost Came to an End” by
Pearl Crayton (USA)
“The Late Bud” by Ama Ata Aidoo
(Ghana)
“The Mountain” by Martin J.
Hamer (USA)
“Bright Thursdays” by Oliver
Senior (Jamaica)
“The Boy Who Painted Christ Black” by
John Henrik Clarke (USA)
“BigWater” by Charlotte Watson
Sherman (USA)
“Swan Song” by Quince Duncan
(Costa Rica)
“Getting the Facts of Life” by Paulette
Childress White (USA)
“The Test” by Njabulo Ndebele
(South Africa)
“How, Why To Get Rich” by J. California
Cooper (USA)
“Johnny Blue” by Archie Weller
(Australia)
“Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier
(USA)
“My Lucy” by Howard Gordon
(USA)
“Dreaming the Sky Down” by Barbara
Burford (England)
“My Mother and Mitch” by Clarence
Major (USA)
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pick
Seventeen stories of particular interest because of the high
quality of their writing as well as for their diverse insights into
growing up black. . . . A rich and rewarding
assortment.
—Kirkus Reviews (a
pointer review)
Age 10-up | 210 pages
Hardcover | Hyperion | 1994 | ISBN: 1562826883 |
MSRP: US$16.95
Paperback | Hyperion | 1995 | ISBN: 0786810769 | MSRP: US$
7.95
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