Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri, Randy DuBurke

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

G. Neri, Randy DuBurke

96 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction young adult dark fast-paced

Description

In August of 1994, 11-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer — nicknamed for his love of sweets — fired a gun at a group of rival gangmembers, accidentally killing a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Police searched Chicago’s southside for three days befo...

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