Bibliograph

Discovering Wes Moore, Wes Moore

Type

Label

Discovering Wes Moore, Wes Moore

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Discovering Wes Moore

Oclc number

822895830

Responsibility statement

Wes Moore

Summary

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths

Table Of Contents

For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The chameleon -- Kid Kupid's last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return

Target audience

adolescent

Creator