Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback.
Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father.
In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he's been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift.
Solo: Is written by New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Book Award-winner Kwame Alexander Showcases Kwame's signature intricacy, intimacy, and poetic style, by exploring what it means to finally go home An #OwnVoices novel that features a BIPOC protagonist on a search for his roots and identity.
| ISBN: | 9780310761884 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2019 |
| Author: | Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess |
| Publisher: | Blink an imprint of HarperCollins Focus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Reading age: | 12+ |
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Through the story of a young Black man searching for answers about his life, Solo empowers, engages, and encourages teenagers to move from heartache to healing, burden to blessings, depression to deliverance, and trials to triumphs. Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Solo and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
Solo features in the following genres: Gritty Reads, Recommendations, Stories in Verse, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for Young Adults
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Solo was written by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess and published by Blink an imprint of HarperCollins Focus
Solo has 464 pages
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