The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two FatesTwo kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the

a courtroom with a robot judge called Edward Gavelhead

Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart

but Clay can't imagine not living with the other dragonets

premature death—and tormented by the last

breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse

Terrific for reading aloud

Ten years after the Armistice

And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other

the source of a power struggle that would lead to the tragic implosion of Dick Haskin’s dream

Laurel finds him in the woods

and he has chosen to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend couldn’t otherwise survive

ISBN-13: 978-0316299367