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The Bridge


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Thirteen-year-old Bilal Taimur was raised as a Muslim but is questioning his faith... as well as many other things that boys of his age often question. His middle-class parents were killed in a car wreck when he was ten, and he's been living with his devoutly Muslim grandfather in West Oakland, California, where he's learned the rules of inner city life... vastly different from life in the 'burbs. His best friend was murdered in a drive-by, and Bilal testified against the gang members, sending them to prison, and is now under a death sentence from the remainder of the gang. There is no witness protection for kids like Bilal, though a pair of good Oakland cops help him beyond the call of duty, and Bilal goes to live with his cousin - Quentin Tanner, also thirteen - in a small rural town in the Sacramento River Delta. Though less than two hours by bus from Oakland, it's like another planet to Bilal, and again he must learn to adapt and make friends in a strange new environment. Meanwhile, the gang find out where he is, but it's also an alien environment for them, where friends are really friends to the end.
About the Author: Jess Mowry was born near Starkville, Mississippi and raised in Oakland, California by his single father. After dropping out of 8th grade, he worked many jobs, including driving trucks and operating heavy equipment in Arizona, engineer aboard a tugboat in Alaska, and maintaining C47 cargo airplanes. He also worked at a children's refuge in Haiti. Returning to Oakland in the late 1980s, he worked at a children's center and began writing stories for the kids. After one of his stories was published in ZYZZYVA, a San Francisco-based literary magazine, in 1988, he began seeking publication for his other works. His first book, a collection of short stories about Oakland kids, titled Rats In The Trees, was published in 1990. His first novel, Children Of The Night, also about Oakland kids, was published in 1991. His second novel, Way Past Cool, was published in 1992. Since then he has published twenty novels, which have been translated into eight languages. Jess Mowry lives in Oakland, California.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780998076751
  • Publisher: Anubis
  • Publisher Imprint: Anubis
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 231 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0998076759
  • Publisher Date: 17 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 133 mm

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