- Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Puffin (Feb 13 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0698118545
- ISBN-13: 978-0698118546
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 11.3 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #985,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dope. Smack. Junk. Heroin. No matter what you call it, you can't change the fact that 13-year-old Benjie is on it. Oh no ... he's not hooked, though. He could stop anytime ... really. But why is a young kid like Benjie using at all? Originally published in 1973, Alice Childress's novel remains one of the most profound explorations of an addict's world ever written. What makes this novel different is that Childress points no fingers and offers no easy answers. Her characters' moods and motivations are complex, fresh, unexpected, and courageously real. Woven into Benjie's own ramblings about his situation are the thoughts of those involved by association--his mother, stepfather, friends, the pusher, and teachers at his school. This narrative technique creates a rich, heroic portrait of the social and psychological circumstances of addiction, love, and family.
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Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for someone to believe in him, for someone to believe that he's more than a thirteen-year-old junkie. Told from the perspectives of the people in his life-including his mother, stepfather, teachers, drug dealer, and best friend-this powerful story will draw you into Benjie's troubled world and force you to confront the uncertainty of his future.
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Now I am thirteen, but when I was a chile, it was hard to be a chile because my block is a tough block and my school is a tough school. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Realist book ever...,
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This review is from: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich (Mass Market Paperback)
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...
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Very Addicting Book,
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This review is from: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich (Mass Market Paperback)
A Review by DavidBenjie 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.
2.0 out of 5 stars
my book,
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This review is from: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich (Mass Market Paperback)
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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