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Summary: Review by:Rob Turner
Review: A HERO AIN¡¦T NOTHING BUT A SANDWICHThis book is about a kid with a messed up life and is not trying to make it better. He is a crack head and he does not go to school he thinks it is a waste of time. His family is no help, they don¡¦t encourage him to at least go to school and stay off the streets so maybe he wont be involved with drugs. And if he goes to school maybe the teachers or the counselors can help him. I think the author wrote the book because he wanted to let you know 0don¡¦t take things for granted and everybody doesn¡¦t get lunch money and everybody doesn¡¦t have parents to help them out. I don¡¦t like this book because the language is confusing. You can hardly understand what there talking about. If the language was better I probably would have liked the book.
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Summary: A Very Addicting Book
Review: A Review by David Benjie Johnson is a thirteen year ld boy who's family gets addicted to heroin and he is not wanting to take the same path... This book is great, the last time I read a good book was.... Probably about... 8th grade. This book is well written and really makes you want to keep reading. I really like this book I am not just saying that. And this book all leads up to a great climax This book I would recommend to someone who can handle adult words... this book is definitely for a mature reader. This book is a fun to read book and very addicting... I would have to say that you would have to be somewhat of a skilled reader to read this book. All in all... if you want a fun exiting grate climax book.... This is for you.
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Summary: Read this when I was a teenager in the 80's
Review: and just re-read it, and it's still just as good today. An excellent book, much better than some of the dramatic drug "shocker" books out today for young adults.
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Summary: Excellent book!!!!
Review: Childress did an excellent job of capturing the experience of many african-american teenage males.
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Summary: Excellent novel
Review: Childress does an excellent job of putting the perspectives of all the characters associated with Benjie or to his problem in this novel. Point of view is a defining characteristic of this novel. Within the twenty-three first person narratives, the reader hears the dialect, different knowledge levels, and thinking processes of all the character's, from the local drug pusher to Benjie's high school teachers. This made the plot a bit harder to follow at first, but had it been written any other way it would have lost a definite sense of authenticity.
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Summary: The Realist book ever...
Review: I read this book a couple times, why I read it more than once was because the First Time I read it I was too young to grasp anything from it. Now I notcie how serious the book and though there is so much fowl languge in the book it seems theres a reason for it. Also when I read the book at times the character Benji made me mad, and sometimes dissappointed at him, because his point of view on Society, but now I realize he's an angry crack head in denial trying to hide what he knows he is...A Pot Head...
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Summary: Real
Review: I thought this was written in an unusual, which is a good change. Instead of one narrator, each chapter had a different one. Some spoke more than once, and some only once. This book gave the perspective of many different people, but all about one topic: heroin. A 15 year old boy, Benjie, has a heroin problem and this shows how it affected his mother, "step-father," grandmother, teachers, friends, and even the dealers. This book deals with death, addiction, and overcoming addiction. I think it is a great read for someone in early high school.
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Summary: A powerful punch
Review: Powerfully and courageously honest about the lives of the young, African-American heroin addict Benjie and those around him ... There are no easy answers in this book. I think it's a story people need to hear, whether we want to or not. I couldn't put it down; I will never forget it; I only hope I learned from it. Moving and amazing.
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Summary: Different from what I usually read, but I loved it.
Review: Set sometime in the sixties or early seventies, this book is written in the dialet of urban blacks. Thirteen-year-old Benjie is like a lot of ghetto children: he's black, he's poor, he hasn't got a father, and he's heavily using heroin. Oh, he's not addicted. He can stop anytime he wants. But his mother and her boyfriend are getting fed up because he's stealing all their stuff and selling it for drug money, and his friends have noticed a change in his behavior too. When the teachers see him stoned at school, they send him up for detoxification and
treatment. The story is told from several points of view: Benjie, his mother's boyfriend who wants to think of him as a son, two of his teachers who fight with each other but deeply care about their students, and his best friend who's concerned about him. The shift in viewpoints can be jarring. I think it's meant to show how heroin not only destroys the person who's on it, but the people around him/her too. I liked this book. While I couldn't identify with the characters and the dialect was somewhat difficult to read, I got a good picture of what was going on. I really liked Benjie's teacher Nigeria Greene. (I think his name says all about him.) I would recommend this to anyone who's interested in learning about ghetto life or drug addiction.
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Summary: my book
Review: The book I read was called A hero ani¡¦t nothing but a sandwich.
To me this book was bad. Why I didn¡¦t like this book is because I was not into the book. Because every time I read it I would do something else, but not read this book in class. What I got out of this book was that if you are young and you take care of your family, that means that you work at a young age under a lot of stress and the last thing you need to do is take drugs. Why
I recommend this book to people is if they want to read something sad. It was a bad book too me. Why did the author write this book? I think because at that time drugs were every were. I think He \She wrote this to people that drugs are bad for and that could mess up your life.
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