Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee

A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his own gang members.

Eleven-year-old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Robert "Yummy" Sandifer's death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy's life. Yummy could be as tough as a pit bull sometimes. Other times he was as sweet as the sugary treats he loved to eat. Was Yummy some sort of monster, or just another kid?

As Roger searches for the truth, he finds more and more questions. How did Yummy end up in so much trouble? Did he really kill someone? And why do all the answers seem to lead back to a gang-the same gang Roger's older brother belongs to?

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty is a compelling dramatization based on events that occurred in Chicago in 1994. This gritty exploration of youth gang life will force readers to question their own understandings of good and bad, right and wrong.

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96 pages

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Jmaybay
Mar 08, 2024
6/10 stars
β€œπ‘° π’•π’“π’Šπ’†π’… 𝒕𝒐 π’‡π’Šπ’ˆπ’–π’“π’† 𝒐𝒖𝒕 π’˜π’‰π’ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 π’€π’–π’Žπ’Žπ’š π’˜π’‚π’”. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 π’˜π’‰π’ 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆 π’Žπ’š 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 π’Žπ’π’π’†π’š? 𝑢𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 π’˜π’‰π’ π’”π’Žπ’Šπ’π’†π’… π’˜π’‰π’†π’ 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 π’Žπ’š π’„π’‚π’π’…π’š π’˜π’Šπ’•π’‰ π’‰π’Šπ’Ž? 𝑰 π’˜π’π’π’…π’†π’“π’†π’… π’Šπ’‡ 𝑰 π’ˆπ’“π’†π’˜ 𝒖𝒑 π’π’Šπ’Œπ’† π’‰π’Šπ’Ž, π’˜π’π’–π’π’… 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’”π’‚π’Žπ’†?” π•π•¦π•žπ•žπ•ͺ: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕒𝕀π•₯ 𝔻𝕒π•ͺ𝕀 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 π•Šπ• π•¦π•₯π•™π•€π•šπ••π•– π•Šπ•™π• π•£π•₯π•ͺ - G. NᴇᴿΙͺ ⭐ ( 6 / 10 ) ⚠️⚠️ πŸ†ƒπŸ††: π™Όπšžπš›πšπšŽπš›, π™ΆπšŠπš—πšπšœ, π™²πš‘πš’πš•πš πš…πš’πš˜πš•πšŽπš—πšŒπšŽ? ⚠️⚠️ This is going to be super short. Like this book. Again, I popped open a book without knowing what I was getting into. Literally love doing that. It gets mw to stuff I wouldnt normally read, like this! I don't know how I missed the fact that it's a graphic novel, which makes sense. I don't know in a way it made it more personable. I felt like I got an inside look without having to get preached to. Not going to lie I loved it. Will I pick up another GN? Probably not, but maybe this was pretty good. I loved that it was kind of speculation, and not even told through some adult, not grown up cause look some adults still children. But it's told through the lense of a child trying to understand it in a child like way that still captures your attention. Look I can't say enough good things about this book. Pick it up read it in a day maybe a couple hours or less. Just check it out. You should know the story too. π•π•¦π•žπ•žπ•ͺ β„π•–π•’π••π•šπ•Ÿπ•˜ π˜‘π˜’π˜Ί π˜”π˜’π˜Ί π˜–π˜Άπ˜΅

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