![]() ![]() Lafayette and Ty’ree take comfort in school, work, and other routines of daily life to keep their lives focused and their minds off the past. He witnessed his father rescue a drowning woman and later die of hypothermia before Lafayette was born, and he continues to feel guilty for not being able to help him. Older brother Ty’ree is more mature and responsible but he, too, is tormented by the past. He blames himself for not being able to save her. Thirteen-year-old Lafayette still grieves for his mother, who died of diabetes two years earlier. Gr 6-10-A compelling novel about three streetwise New York City brothers trying to help one another confront their personal demons. ![]() Why did Mama have to die? Why does Charlie hate him so much? And how are the three brothers-Miracle’s boys-supposed to survive when so much seems to be stacked against them? But things have changed and all he can do now is ask why…. ![]() ![]() Synopsis (from Lafayette would do anything to have things back the way they used to be-back before their parents died and back before his brother Charlie changed so much. ![]()
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