Books by Greg Neri and Complete Book Reviews

Knockout Games
Knockout Games
G. Neri. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4677-3269-7
A 15-year-old gets mixed up in dangerous activities in this gritty urban drama, partially inspired by real events. After Erica’s parents split up and her mother takes her to live in St. Louis, Erica feels like a fish out of water, part of a small...
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Tru and Nelle
Tru and Nelle
G. Neri. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-69960-1
Tru is a newcomer in Monroeville, Ala., and his city ways and fey affectations don’t help the seven-year-old fit in. Nelle has lived in the small Southern town her whole life, but her tomboy tendencies make her a kind of outsider, too. Neighbors and
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Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
G. Neri and Randy DuBurke, Lee & Low, $16.95 paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-58430-267-4
In 1994, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, a 14-year-old girl named Shavon Dean was killed by a stray bullet during a gang shooting. Her killer, Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, was 11 years old. Neri recounts Yummy's three days on the...
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