Very moving story for middle graders about brothers and grief ( )

An honest book about complicated relationships and very raw truth behind the types of grief a child can feel after they lose their parent and how shame can warp all of it. ( )

This is a very short novel and it is very specific and purposed focused in on a very specific time in the lives of 3 brothers. It is powerful and heartbreaking, but also heartfelt. It is a story of brotherhood - the family kind - and not giving up.

Warning: Deals with the processing of the death of one's parents. ( )

RGG: Very slight story about three brothers living in Harlem and surviving without parents.