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A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street. We get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout. We meet Angela, who starts having prophetic dreams after... read more
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Characters/People edit
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- Angela
- Mr. Rodriguez
- Mother Fletcher
- Billy
- Benny
- J.t.
- Big Joe
- O'brien
- Mrs. Flores
- Meaghan
- Johnnie Mae
- Willie
- Duke
- Kathy
- Celia
- Jorge Cruz
- Mary
- Mrs. Morales
- Manny
- Tommy
- Doll
- Froggy
- Titi
- Maurice
- Kitty
- Jimmy
- Eddie
- Poli
- Sadie
- Maria Pincay
- Squeezie
- Latoya
First Sentence edit
The way I see it, things happen on 145th Street that don't happen anywhere else in the world.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Walter Dean Myers (Author)
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