Alan Lawrence Sitomer
1) Homeboyz
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Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.
2) The hoopster
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Andre Anderson, an African-American teenager enjoying a summer filled with pickup basketball, a new girlfriend, and an internship at a popular magazine, becomes the target of violent bigotry when he writes a powerful article on racism.
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California Teacher of the Year Alan Lawrence Sitomer is the author of hard-hitting best-sellers like Homeboyz. Sonia Rodriguez, the teenage daughter of illegal Mexican immigrants, feels stuck in the middle of two worlds. Sonia plans to be the first in her family to graduate high school and go to college. But when she puts her schoolwork before her familia, Sonia's mother sends her to relatives in Mexico to learn "the ways of the old world." Sonia...
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Selected as Teacher of the Year in the State of California, Alan Lawrence Sitomer is an English teacher in an inner-city high school in Los Angeles and a professor at Loyola Marymount University. When Theresa's family and teachers challenge her to perform better in school, she turns to hip- hop music for inspiration. With the help of a new friend, she makes a pact to ace the SATs and get into college.