Monday, January 31, 2011

The Cruisers

 The Cruisers (Myers, Walter Dean; Scholastic, 2010; 128 p. 9780439916264 $16.99)


The Cruisers are a group of students at a Harlem school who are surrounded by gifted, motivated kids, but who are content with just getting by (thus, they cruise).  The students, eighth graders, are forced off their path of apathy when a school assignment lands them smack in the middle of a heated controversy involving the Civil War.

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