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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Contributor(s): Moore, Wes (Author)

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ISBN: 0385528205     ISBN-13: 9780385528207
Publisher: One World
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2011453856
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.25" W x 8" L (0.50 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/16/2011 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 01/21/2011 pg. 78
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 144360
Reading Level: 7.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "compassionate" (People), "startling" (Baltimore Sun), "moving" (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

In development as a feature film executive produced by Stephen Curry, who selected the book as his "Underrated" Book Club Pick with Literati

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.

Wes just couldn't shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they'd hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.

 
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