Dark sons

Description:

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

subjects: Stepbrothers,  Fathers and sons,  Fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 5,  Reading Level-Grade 4,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Children's fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Bible, history of biblical events, fiction,  Stepfamilies, fiction,  Self-perception, fiction,  Stories in rhyme,  Fathers and sons, fiction

People: Ishmael (Biblical figure)