Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

***Last entry!***

At least for the summer reading.
This book was a mixture of poetry and narrative from 18 different high school kids living in the Bronx, New York. You have many black and Latino students, but with a few white kids too. At first, there is the typical clichey-ness of a normal high school. But an English teacher starts letting students read poetry they wrote for themselves in class. Soon everyone starts to understand each other better, and they start to become more like a big family: they don't always get along, but they respect and care about each other.