Discovering Wes Moore
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804121941 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 080412194X (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (1 sound file (04 hr., 01 min., 21 sec.)) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2013.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's Last strike -- Rookie -- Refuge -- Airborne -- History calling -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- Prodigal's return. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Target Audience Note: | 7-12. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Through the telling of events from his own life, Wes Moore (author of the bestselling adult title The Other Wes Moore) explores the issues that separate success and failure. He also counterpoints his story with another man, someone who shared the same name, was almost the same age, grew up fatherless in a similar Baltimore neighborhood, but is serving a life sentence for murder. Compelled to write to the other Wes, the author was surprised to receive a reply...