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Simon & Schuster
July 2016
On Sale: July 12, 2016
Featuring: Leon; Jake
304 pages
ISBN: 1501117459
EAN: 9781501117459
Kindle: B0176M3SYE
Hardcover / e-Book
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For fans of THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, a sparkling,
big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a
young black boy’s quest to reunite with his beloved white
half-brother after they are separated in foster care. Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and
his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is
born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, “I’m your
brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and
three quarters. I am a boy.” Jake will play with no one but
Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and
earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can. But Leon isn’t in control of this world where adults say one
thing and mean another, and try as he might he can’t protect
his little family from everything. When their mother falls
victim to her inner demons, strangers suddenly take Jake
away; after all, a white baby is easy to adopt, while a
half-black nine-year-old faces a less certain fate. Vowing
to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon’s own
journey—on his brand-new BMX bike—will carry him through the
lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen;
Maureen’s cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social
worker Leon knows only as “The Zebra”; and a colorful
community of local gardeners and West Indian political
activists. Told through the perspective of nine-year-old Leon, too
innocent to entirely understand what has happened to him and
baby Jake, but determined to do what he can to make things
right, he stubbornly, endearingly struggles his way through
a system much larger than he can tackle on his own. MY NAME
IS LEON is a vivid, gorgeous, and uplifting story about the
power of love, the unbreakable bond between brothers, and
the truth about what, in the end, ultimately makes a family.
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