Bronx Masqerade is an amazing book. It addresses many issues that teens struggle with today: rejection, being your self, and living your dreams. It uses poetry with the story in a creative way and I am a person who uasly doen't like poety in a story.(I'm sorry. I even skipped over the poetry in Lord of the Rings.)
The author takes you on a wild ride with with an english class in the Bronx. The class is depressed about growing up in a nieghborhood were there are gang problems and dream often don't come true. The class starts studying the Harlem Renissance, and one of the students who was suppose to write an essay on a poem; wrote a poem on a peom. The class liked it and the teacher asked the rest of the class if they wanted to share any poetry they had written next week. More and more people start bringing in works they have written. The diversity and issues that are in the poems are heavy. Each students style is unique and each poem portrays a part od who they really are. Warning: parents read this book before you let your children read it., so you may decide if you want them to read it or not. There is some swearing and some of the subjects disscusses might not be fit for children.
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