![]() The lyrics he wrote down were nothing short of miraculous, and the rhymes he could come up with on the fly were a revelation. ![]() All three of them acknowledge he was one of the best. It is while hanging out in her brother’s room after the funeral that Jarrell and Quadir find her, and together they discover the music Steph was working on. First it was her father, and now it is Steph. Steph’s younger sister, Jasmine, is not only drowning in grief, but she is also attempting to hold together what is left of her family. Already, their end of summer tradition of visiting Coney Island - a combination of marking the end of summer, and welcoming a new school year - has been called off. The spot in Brooklyn where the three of them would hang out will never be the same. His best friends, Jarrell and Quadir, can hardly believe it. The Situation: It seems impossible, but Steph has been killed. Set in Brooklyn in 1998, a year after the death of The Notorious B.I.G, the book follows three teenagers as they come to grips with a death in their own neighborhood, and decide that this time, the young man will not be another statistic or name people read in the newspaper. Jackson, and was excited when I found out about her new novel and today’s selection, Let Me Hear a Rhyme. ![]() Last year I decided to pick up Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. ![]()
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