This outing starts with Donte Ellison wishing for invisibility, as compared to being a hypervisible “nighttime dark” student at upper-crust, overwhelmingly white Middlefield Prep. Powerful and emotionally gripping, Black Brother, Black Brother is a careful examination of the school-to-prison pipeline and follows one boy's fight against racism and his empowering path to finding his voice.Following on Ghost Boys (2018), Rhodes delivers another middle-grade novel that takes on complex, historical topics while emphasizing young people’s agency and healing. Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what.Īs Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey.
As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him.
Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.įramed.
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