![]() Fist then no fist.” He solves his problem about how to take Alan down by taking fencing lessons with a former Olympic fencer who works at a nearby community sports club. The author allows us to feel his anger and hurt. The use of a first-person storyteller is brilliant and gives the reader a powerful doorway into Donte’s pain. The police are called, he is handcuffed, taken to a police car in front of the whole school, driven to a satellite station and put in a cell! When Donte tries to defend himself and sees that as usual no-one is listening, he throws his bookbag on the floor in desperation. The teacher all too quickly accuses Donte of the act. The story begins when Alan, the captain of the fencing team who has taken a vicious dislike to Donte, throws a pencil in class. However, Donte is not accepted by the students or the administration of Middlefield Prep. Trey looks like his white father, a computer architect, whereas Donte looks like his black mother, a social justice lawyer. ![]() He and his brother Trey have biracial parents. BLACK BROTHER, BLACK BROTHER written by the highly- praised author Jewel Parker Rhodes is a powerful middle grade novel about racism as told by twelve year- old student Donte Ellison. ![]()
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