The Shadow Brothers - Softcover

Cannon, A.E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440211670 ISBN 13: 9780440211679

Publisher: Laurel Leaf, 1992

Synopsis

Marcus and his foster brother, Henry, a Navaho,  have always been close. Marcus doesn't mind letting  Henry lead the way; after all, he's brilliant,  good-natured, and a champion runner. But now that  they are sixteen and Henry is dating the amazing  Celia, and now that he's showing interest in his  Navaho heritage and his family on the reservation,  Marcus is left behind. Henry is turning toward a  world where Marcus will never belong. But like Henry,  Marcus must discover his own strengths and  passions, including his feeling for the extraordinary  girl next door.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 7-10-- Henry Yazzie, a Navajo, came to live in Utah with the Jenkins family when he was seven. He and Marcus Jenkins grew up as foster brothers. Now they are high-school juniors--racing together (Henry is the better runner), dating, working together, with Marcus happily playing second fiddle and living in Henry's shadow. When another native American, a Hopi, comes to Wakara High School, he razzes Henry. "Apple," he calls him, "red on the outside, white inside." Disturbed, Henry withdraws from his white family and decides to return to the Navajo Nation and to his heritage, perhaps not to stay, but . . . The break with Marcus is difficult for both boys. The loving, supportive Jenkins family is fully developed, and the action is revealed through Marcus' first-person narrative. Cannon has written a read-it-again story on a not-everyday topic. She draws her characters with personal, sometimes humorous idiosyncrasies, embellished with apt teentalk and teenthink. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
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From Publishers Weekly

Marcus and Henry, his Navajo foster brother, find their paths diverging as they turn 16. Ages 12-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0440211670
• ISBN 13: 9780440211679
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 192