Rite of passage

About this book

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.

Subjects

• african americans
• african americans, fiction
• african american teenage boys
• children's fiction
• criticism and interpretation
• fiction
• gangs
• gangs, fiction
• harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction
• runaways
• runaways, fiction