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OverviewA Book about a Boy Living with AIDS Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arlene SchulmanPublisher: Lerner Publishing Group Imprint: Lerner Publishing Group Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.310kg ISBN: 9780822525820ISBN 10: 0822525828 Pages: 40 Publication Date: 01 August 1997 Recommended Age: From 7 to 9 years Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsA sensitive, sorrowful photo-essay; Schulman exhibits no tendency to sugar-coat the troubled life of Carmine, who was born with the HIV vires and had full-blown AIDS since he was two. In an epilogue readers learn that he died in 1996, two months after his tenth birthday. Carmine's mother, a heroin user, died when he was a baby, so he lived with his grandmother. He tried to have an outwardly normal life, playing Monopoly and video games, and taking care of his school work with a tutor. But the black-and-white photographs tell a haunting story - of an exhausted 34-pound child who knew he was dying, and a loving grandmother who knew she would outlive him. While Schulman has difficulty keeping the first-person narration distinctly childlike, especially when she's conveying technical information about HIV and AIDS, the story is a poignant look at one boy's short life, and the disease that was with him since birth. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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