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From Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Yummy G. Neri comes an epic journey across the South Side of Chicago for Darius, his little sister Cissy, and his best friend Booger as they set out to find an armored truck that has lost a payload of cash. Thirteen-year-old Darius is going through a rough time. It's almost been a year since a terrible act of violence took the life of his mother and left him with a wound both in his leg and in his heart. With his stepdad out of work; his little sister, Cissy, always on his case; and the looming prospect of foreclosure on their house, he feels his world closing in on him. But Darius's best friend, Booger, has a plan. A Brinks armored truck has crashed on a nearby highway and money is blowing everywhere. If they can get across town and back safely, they just might get rich! But to do it, they need to cross through some of the most dangerous streets in Chicago, staying ahead of the gangs that rule those neighborhoods. Before long, their adventures blow up on social media as Booger documents their search for riches, and everyone is after them. Can they get home without falling victim to the violence of the streets? Sometimes, on the streets of Chicago, there is no Safe Passage.

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"""This book is incredible, from one page to the next, I couldn't put it down."" -- Raúl the Third, creator of the World of ¡Vamos! ""Safe Passage is brutal, beautiful, and mercilessly necessary. It's a love letter to the City with Big Shoulders and a reminder that once it had to rise from its ashes. Neri and Brame do a delicate dance of text and image that expose the dangers of the street mixed with the hope and innocence that Black children have to fight to protect. It's an amazing achievement and is a prime example of what the comics medium can do when true masters are at the height of their craft."" -- John Jennings, award-winning comics creator and scholar ""G. Neri and David Brame's dynamically symbiotic Safe Passage captures those aspects of the human experience too often one-dimensionally plastered across the front pages or incessantly beamed through our screens. What is wonderful here is that these two ingenious creatives get us deep into the human heart and human mind of young people caught in the trap--that what is depicted are not just throwaway statistics and future fleeting hashtags, but flesh and blood Black children full of pain, longing, desperate dreams, intelligence and good humor, along with the survival rules learned from fearful parents to get through the chaotic landscape of mean streets precarious as their precious lives. Safe Passage is just that: A safe way for us to pass through a narrative that at its root is an empathetic way into our hearts and minds."" -- Tony Medina, author of I Am Alfonso Jones "" ""Neri and Brame have crafted a masterpiece where every twist is unpredictable, uneasy, and unrelenting. Your heart should not beat this fast reading a graphic novel, but in this adventurous, all-too-real tale of tension, it will!""--Stacey Robinson, illustrator of I Am Alfonso Jones and Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre "" --"

"""Safe Passage is brutal, beautiful, and mercilessly necessary. It's a love letter to the City with Big Shoulders and a reminder that once it had to rise from its ashes. Neri and Brame do a delicate dance of text and image that expose the dangers of the street mixed with the hope and innocence that Black children have to fight to protect. It's an amazing achievement and is a prime example of what the comics medium can do when true masters are at the height of their craft."" -- John Jennings, award-winning comics creator and scholar ""This book is incredible, from one page to the next, I couldn't put it down."" -- Raúl the Third, creator of the World of ¡Vamos! ""These two ingenious creatives get us deep into the human heart and human mind of young people. What is depicted are not just throwaway statistics and future fleeting hashtags, but flesh and blood Black children full of pain, longing, desperate dreams, intelligence, and good humor"" -- Tony Medina, author of I Am Alfonso Jones ""Neri and Brame have crafted a masterpiece where every twist is unpredictable, uneasy, and unrelenting. Your heart should not beat this fast reading a graphic novel, but in this adventurous, all-too-real tale of tension, it will!"" -- Stacey Robinson, illustrator of I Am Alfonso Jones and Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre"

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"G. Neri is an award-winning author, including a Michael L. Printz Award for his contribution to The Collectors anthology as well as an Eisner nomination and Coretta Scott King Honor for Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty. He has written many books for young people, including Ghetto Cowboy, which was made into the movie Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba, debuting at #1 on Netflix. His books have been translated into multiple languages in more than 25 countries. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from SUNY for his literary output. Mr. Neri lives on the Gulf coast of Florida. For more information, visit gneri.com. David Brame is the Eisner-nominated comic artist of After the Rain, whose art for the graphic novel was hailed as ""bold and arresting"" by Publishers Weekly. He was also a contributor to the graphic novel anthology Young Men In Love: A Queer Romance Anthology, which earned the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Anthology and the American Library Association's award for Great Graphic Novel for Teens. David lives in Alaska with his three dogs. For more information, visit his Instagram @amazingdavidbrame."

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